KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – The St. Vincent and the Grenadines government, Monday, said it is undertaking a million-dollar (one EC dollar = 0.37 cents) exercise to consolidate and revise the national laws, resulting in all the laws of the island being available online.
Attorney General, Louise Mitchell, in an address to marking the start of the new law term here, said also the official Gazette will also be available online and that the new government, which came to office following the November 27 general elections last year, considers as “an important medium-term objective” the construction of the halls of justice proposed by the former government.
Mitchell said that the compilation of the laws of St. Vincent and the Grenadines will include all laws passed up to December 31, 2025, noting that the last consolidation and revision of the national laws was completed in 2009 and, as such, a further revision is long overdue.
“The transition from a previous service provider to the Regional Law Revision Centre in Anguilla, which we have now engaged, represents a strategic shift towards regional cooperation whilst maintaining sovereignty over our legal framework,” Mitchell said, adding that a fundamental benefit of this new engagement is that the government will own the resulting legal compilation.
“The decision to produce the consolidated laws in MS Word format reflects practical considerations,” Mitchell said, adding that this alignment facilitates knowledge sharing and investor confidence through clear legal frameworks.
“It directly supports Sustainable Development Goal 16, which calls for peaceful and inclusive societies, access to justice for all, and effective, accountable institutions. And more importantly, the AG’s Chambers says it’s necessary to reduce the number of complaints received from the Bar Association about why we haven’t done this as yet.”
She said that the Ministry of Legal Affairs website has a copy of the Gazette published since 2016.
“I shall put things in place to ensure that we will be positioned to post all laws passed under the new administration on the said website in the coming months,” Mitchell said, adding that the digitisation of the Land Registry Project is ongoing and is expected to conclude in 2028.
She said the Legal Professions Bill, introduced under the previous government, will be placed on the parliamentary agenda in the first quarter of the year.
“It seeks to ensure that we as practitioners hold ourselves to the highest of standards, and is quite relevant in light of the theme of (“The ECSC: Justice that Endures – Anchored in Independence, Strengthened through Trust”) of this sitting today,” Mitchell said.
“We must adopt principles as practitioners where our integrity is not compromised. The passage of this bill will serve to enshrine in law the ethical standards by which all lawyers should operate.”
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