Judicial Committee of The Privy Council - Overseas Jurisdiction

Overseas Jurisdiction

The Judicial Committee holds jurisdiction in appeals from the following 31 jurisdictions (including 13 independent nations):

Appeal is to "Her Majesty in Council" from eight independent nations, and 18 other jurisdictions:

• The Commonwealth realms of Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Tuvalu.
• The New Zealand associated states of Cook Islands and Niue.
• The Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey, including Guernsey's own dependencies of Alderney and Sark, and appeals from the Staff of Government Division on the Isle of Man.
• The British overseas territories of Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Pitcairn Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
• The United Kingdom's Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, in Cyprus.

Appeal is directly to the Judicial Committee from four independent republics:

• The Commonwealth republics of Dominica, Mauritius, and Trinidad and Tobago, and also, if the case involves constitutional rights, Kiribati.

Appeal to the Head of State:

• Brunei, an independent member nation of the Commonwealth of Nations, has an agreement with the United Kingdom that the Judicial Committee hears cases appealed to the Sultan, and reports back to him.