Resources

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The Cayman Bar Association regarding the 2009 draft Constitution.

Branches of Government: Existing and Proposed

 

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New Offices and Commissions

 

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The Draft Constitution: Responsibility-Sharing and Greater Accountability, or the Road to Independence

 

• 2009 Draft Constitution Explanatory Guide
  The guide will help you understand the differences between the current Constitution and the proposed constitution.

• Final Draft Constitution
  This is a consolidated version which also includes the draft entrustment letter from FCO, draft letter on Orders-in-Council from FCO and draft letter on Future Constitutional Change

• Foreign Affairs Committee Overseas Territories: Seventh Report of Session 2007-08
  - Report together with formal minutes

• Seventh Report of the Foreign Affairs Committee Session 2007-08
  Overseas Territories: Response of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

• Foreign Affairs Committee Overseas Territories: Seventh Report of Session 2007-08
  Report together with formal minutes

• Managing risk in the Overseas Territories
  Foreign and Commonwealth Office

• The Referendum (Constitutional Modernisation) Bill, 2008

• UDP Position Paper 2
• UDP Position Paper 1

• Revised Proposals for Constitutional Modernisation
  These revised set of proposals reflect the views that the people of the Cayman Islands would like to see enshrined in our new Constitution.

• The 1972 Constitution and Companion Guide
  An informal consolidated version of the constitution and a question and answer guide that sets out the constitutional provisions in simple terms.

• Summary of Proposals
  The release of the Summary of Proposals and the Explanatory Notes signals the start of the public consultation phase (Phase Two) of the Constitutional Modernisation Initiative (CMI).

• The Cayman Islands Constitution Explanatory Notes
  The Explanatory Notes is a detailed version of the Summary of Proposals so that readers can have a clear understanding of the proposals highlighted.

• Why is a Bill of Rights Important?
  Transcript of Professor Jeffrey Jowell’s, QC lecture at the Human Rights Round Table Discussion held on 15 November 2007 at the University College of the Cayman Islands Multi-Purpose Hall.

• Cayman's Constitution
  This is an informal consolidation of the Cayman Islands Constitution for guidance purposes only. It takes into account all the Statutory Instruments amending the Constitution, including UKSI 1984/126, UKSI 1987/2199, UKSI 1992/226, UKSI 1993/3143, UKSI 2003/1515, UKSI 2004/2673 and UKSI 2004/2029.