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The Caribbean Court of Justice within the next two years will serve two main roles. # To act as a court that can handle trade disputes amongst CARICOM member states (Original Jurisdiction). # A Court that will eventually serve as a supreme appellate court to replace the Judicial Committee Of The Privy Council in London (Final Appelate Court). The court was first proposed in 1970 . The official inauguration was held in Queen's Hall - Port Of Spain , Trinidad And Tobago on Saturday 16 April 2005 . As Of 2005 the court's jurisdiction is limited to only the CARICOM states of Barbados and Guyana . The first case heard by the CCJ was in August 2005 {Link without Title} the case was to settle a 'decade-long' libel court case from Barbados. The reasoning for the establishment of a supreme appellate court are many and varied, including a perceived regional disenfranchisement with the British Judicial Committee Of The Privy Council . Controversy surrounding the establishment of this court, correspond to two main events that made the Privy Council unpopular in the Caribbean region. One reason, was the refusal of the Privy Council to allow Capital Punishment for person convicted of murder to be practiced in Caribbean states, even with majority support by the populous in the jurisdiction. [http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/2005/02/08/sanders.shtml , [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1171362.stm] The second main issue was a case involving the government of Antigua And Barbuda , where the Privy Council handed out a radio licsense to a company on behalf of the forementioned government without approval or consent. The British based court has been percieved as having too much power in the Caribbean region. Several politicians, also lamented that the Caribbean nations are the only remaining region of the old British Empire still to rely on the British court system for appeals. It is expected that the two Caribbean states that will have the most difficulty when accessing the Privy Council will be Suriname which has a Dutch -based legal system, and Haiti which has a French -based legal system. All other member states have a British based legal systems with the CCJ itself being predominantly modeled after the British system. REFERENCES
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