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The Court of Appeal called on the Cayman Government to implement civil unions or a legal equivalent, and ordered the Government of the United Kingdom to step in if the Cayman Government failed to do so. A civil partnership law was enacted on 4 September 2020. [4] [5] In March 2022, a London court in the UK upheld the legal ban on same-sex ...
Same-sex marriage is currently not recognised in the Cayman Islands.The island's statutory law limits marriage to different-sex couples. A lawsuit with the Grand Court successfully challenged this ban in March 2019; however, the Court of Appeal overturned the ruling in November 2019.
The law of the Cayman Islands is a combination of common law and statute, and is based heavily upon English law. Law in the Cayman Islands tends to be a combination of the very old and the very new. As a leading offshore financial centre, the Cayman Islands has extremely modern statutes dealing with company law, insolvency, banking law, trust ...
The Parliament of the Cayman Islands is the unicameral legislature of the British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands. It is composed of 21 members; 19 elected members for a four-year term and two members ex officio. [1] The Governor may at any time, by Proclamation, prorogue or dissolve the Parliament.
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He joined the Civil Service in July 1981 as Assistant Labour Officer. He transferred to the Judicial Department, where he was appointed Deputy Clerk of the Court in 1982. McLaughlin graduated from the University of Liverpool in 1988 with a Bachelor of Laws degree and received a practice certificate from the Cayman Islands Law School .
The Cayman Islands is a parliamentary representative democratic dependency. As a British Overseas Territories, Charles III is the head of state. The Premier of the Cayman Islands is the head of government. Executive power is exercised by the government, legislative power is vested in both the government and the Parliament of the Cayman Islands.
Juliana Yvonne O'Connor-Connolly is a Caymanian politician who has served as Premier of the Cayman Islands from December 2012 to May 2013 and again since November 2023. She served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Cayman Islands from November 2001 to October 2003 and again from May 2013 to May 2017.