The Christie Justus Law Library

Open legal research · Georgetown, Guyana · for the Caribbean and the world

"Teach the law. Gatekeep nothing." — free law, organized like the great databases

One search desk, many databases — exactly the Lexis habit, pointed at the law that belongs to everyone.

The Reading Rooms — case law by jurisdiction

Every shelf below is free, official or court-connected, and citable. The reports themselves (WIR, ICLR) remain in their publishers' hands — these rooms hold the judgments the free-law movement liberated.

Caribbean

Caribbean Court of Justice

Judgments of the region's final court (original & appellate jurisdiction) — including Guyana's appeals since 2005.

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Caribbean · Commonwealth

Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

Decided cases from the Board — decades of West Indian appeals, free from the source.

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Caribbean

Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court

Judgments across the nine OECS member states — High Court and Court of Appeal.

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Guyana 🇬🇾

Supreme Court of Guyana

Our own judiciary — decisions, rules and practice directions from home.

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United Kingdom · Ireland

BAILII

The great free room of British & Irish law — England & Wales, Scotland, NI, and historic databases.

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United Kingdom

UK Supreme Court

Every UKSC judgment with press summaries — persuasive authority across the Commonwealth.

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Canada

CanLII

The Canadian system entire — SCC to provincial courts, legislation included. A model free library.

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Commonwealth

CommonLII

Sixty jurisdictions of the Commonwealth in one catalogue — including West Indian collections.

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The world

WorldLII

The world's free-access law, federated — courts, legislation, treaties, law reform.

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Australia · NZ

AustLII

Australasia's pioneering free library — the engine room behind the whole LII movement.

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United States

Cornell Legal Information Institute

US law explained and sourced — Supreme Court, US Code, and the beloved Wex encyclopedia.

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Guyana 🇬🇾

Laws of Guyana

The statutes of the Co-operative Republic, from the Ministry of Legal Affairs.

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🛢️ The Oil & Gas Collection — the law reshaping our country

Guyana's petroleum age needs petroleum lawyers. This shelf gathers the free primary materials that matter to us.

Guyana

Petroleum Activities & EPA materials

Guyana's petroleum legislation via MOLA + the EPA's permits and environmental authorisations for the Stabroek operations.

Statutes · EPA
Guyana

Ministry of Natural Resources

The Production Sharing Agreements, local content law materials and petroleum policy documents — published for the nation.

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Comparative

International energy jurisprudence

Arbitral awards and cases on petroleum contracts via ITA and Jus Mundi's free tier; UNCITRAL texts for the frameworks.

italaw · UNCITRAL
Environmental

Climate & environmental litigation

The Sabin Center's global climate case database — where oil, environment and constitutional rights now collide.

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The Chambers — every area of law, clearly separated

Each chamber holds its search, pointed at the right rooms. Click any query to run it.

The Scholars' Gallery — learned writing, free to read

Papers by jurists of the Caribbean and the world — because doctrine travels on the backs of writers.

Worldwide

SSRN — Legal Scholarship Network

Working papers by the world's jurists, free — search any doctrine, any region.

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Caribbean

Caribbean Law Review sources

UWI's faculties, the Caribbean Court of Justice Academy and regional bar publications — the region writing itself.

UWI · CCJ Academy
Open access

DOAJ — open-access law journals

Peer-reviewed law journals with no paywall, filterable to law.

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Practice

Hugh Wooding & regional training

The Council of Legal Education and the law schools of the region — where our profession is made.

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⚖️ Library notice. This is a free educational research library maintained in the spirit of open legal knowledge. It links to official and free-access sources; it copies no publisher's reports. Nothing here is legal advice, and nothing here creates an attorney-client relationship. Commercial databases (LexisNexis, Westlaw, ICLR, the West Indian Reports) remain excellent — this room simply proves how far the free law now reaches. Sources open in new tabs; their content belongs to their courts and authors.

Your Library Card 🪪

Like the database sign-ins of your student days — your card personalizes this desk and keeps your reading list on this device. No password, no tracking, nothing leaves your browser.