The Virgin Islands is said to have taken some highlighted spots in the newest and second book to have been written and released by Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Judge, the Honourable Justice Winston Anderson. Photo: Provided

The book was said to have been the second edition of Hon. Anderson’s Caribbean Private International Law and was published in September, 2014 by Sweet & Maxwell, London and is said to be the only indigenous text describing the rules that apply in the 15 member states of the Caribbean Community regarding the regulation of cross-border activities. Photo: Provided

This was conveyed to this news site on Monday October 6, 2014 by a senior member of the CCJ who is the holder of a copy of the new book and who thought it worthy of mention as a number of cases tried in the VI, not necessarily at any one sitting, constitute major aspects of the book. The CCJ member asked not to be named.

The book was said to have been the second edition of Hon. Anderson’s Caribbean Private International Law and was published in September, 2014 by Sweet & Maxwell, London and is said to be the only indigenous text describing the rules that apply in the 15 member states of the Caribbean Community regarding the regulation of cross-border activities.

In a release shared with this news site it is stated that it is the first book in the region to exclusively address the means by which Caribbean courts resolve multinational disputes and the 600-page work describes the conceptual and practical legal problems that are likely to arise in resolving cross-border disputes and shows how such problems are approached under the national legal systems of Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

First published in 2003, this seminal work was inspired by the need for persons to gain a deeper appreciation of the decreasing role of English law and the ways in which Caribbean case law and legislation are defining a body of private international law uniquely suited to the economic and social developmental needs of the region.

Caribbean Private International Law examines multi-jurisdictional disputes increasingly thrown up through liberalization of markets and revolutions in technology as well as transnational family law, property and succession problems.

Hailed by various legal jurists throughout the region as a “scholarly masterpiece of special Caribbean relevance”, Justice Anderson’s book has been described by globally renowned international law practitioner Sir Trevor Carmichael QC as a “…significant watershed in Caribbean legal publications” who goes on to say “it represents a milestone in the development of a growing Caribbean jurisprudence in an area of law that is both complex and fascinating”.

Justice Anderson has been a judge at the Caribbean Court of Justice since 2010 having previously served as a professor of law at the University of the West Indies and a General Counsel for CARICOM. His Principles of Caribbean Environmental Law was published in December, 2012 by the Environmental Law Institute, Washington.