The Doctrine of Reception and the Legal Systems of Guyana and St. Lucia in the Commonwealth Caribbean

Abstract

Legal Practitioners in the Commonwealth Caribbean have perfected a practice based on a legal system inherited. This system built primarily upon European jurisprudence and now evolved with Caribbean Jurists influencing a Common law that is facilitating a path to being bespoke. Guyana and St. Lucia are unique in their hybrid legal system which has been formed as a result of the Doctrine of Reception.