ABSTRACT
Legislation is an important source of law in the Commonwealth Caribbean. In fact, in a modern context, there is a tendency for legislation to become even more important. This is because more codification is taking place in the Commonwealth Caribbean and elsewhere in the common law world. This is further evidence of the merging of the common law and civil law legal traditions, discussed above, Chapter 2. Weeramantry states emphatically that ‘in the next century . . . statutes will unquestionably be the major source of law’.1
