Commercial Litigation
Overview of the Bahamian legal system
The Bahamas is a former colony of Great Britain, which attained independence on 10 July 1973 but acknowledges the Queen of England as its constitutional Head of State and maintains its identity as a common law jurisdiction. By the Declaratory Act passed in 1799, the English common law was declared to be the law of The Bahamas along with a superstructure of English statutes to which were added a succession of local statutes enacted by the local Parliament progressively.
