Table of Contents

Transitions in Caribbean Law: An Introduction vii

David S. Berry and Tracy Robinson

I. LAWMAKING IN THE CARIBBEAN 1

1. Fi We Law: The Emergence of Caribbean Jurisprudence

and the Doctrine of Precedent 3

Leighton M.

2. Corporate Governance: One Size Fits All? 33

Suzanne Goldson

3. Expanding the Purview of Accountability in

Employment by the State 51

Rose-Marie An toine

4. More Questions Than Answers?

Caribbean Jurisprudence on the Duty of Uberrimae Fides 76 Lesley A. Walcott

II. THE CONFLUENCE OF INTERNATIONAL

AND DOMESTIC LAW 101

5. The Use of International Law by Domestic Tribunals

in the Caribbean in Death Penalty Cases 103

David S. Berry

6. Legitimate Expectations, International Treaties

and the Caribbean Court of Justice 128

Eddy D. Ventose

7. Human Trafficking Legislation in the Commonwealth

Caribbean: Effective or Effected? 148

Kamille Adair

III. THE HABITS OF CONSTITUTIONALISM 177

8. The Common Law and the Litigation of Fundamental

Rights and Freedoms Before the Privy Council 179

Margaret Demerieux

9. Judicial Independence as an Indispensable Feature of the Rule of Law and Democracy: Implications

for the Commonwealth Caribbean 199

ArifBulkan

10. Constitutionalism in Belize: Lessons for

the Commonwealth Caribbean? 225

Godfrey P. Smith

11. Our Inherent Constitution 248

Tracy Robinson

Contributors 277