This article explores the sources of the law of unjust enrichment in the Channel Islands and in so doing suggests an explanation of why the equity-based test for unjust enrichment in Jersey differs from the test in England and Wales. It also considers why the Jersey...
Relief In Jersey And Guernsey: Something And Nothing?
This article offers in several parts a short account of the custom in the Islands governing relief. We consider first how it may have come into being and how its principal characteristics thereafter evolved. A comparison between Jersey and Guernsey and the continuing...
Changes In Jersey Ecclesiastical Law
The customary law of Jersey governed matters in the sacramental life of the twelve parishes of Jersey in line with the universal Canon law. The development of a distinct body of ecclesiastical law for Jersey began with the Island’s attachment to the episcopal See of...