Cayman Islands Judiciary Press Release
The Judiciary will relaunch the judicial.ky website on October 1. The redesign of the website has been undertaken to improve accessibility and make the site more user-friendly for the general public.
As the Chief Justice has noted on several occasions, ‘Open Justice’ is a fundamental principle of justice and the rule of law in democracies around the world and no less so in the Cayman Islands. In order to achieve that end, the Courts must consistently seek to upgrade tools which we use to serve customers, such as our website, to increasingly higher standards.
In order for the relaunch of the website to be effective, the website will be offline overnight.
The acting Court Administrator explained that “Most of the planned downtime for the site will be during a typically non-peak period and will run from 5:00 p.m. on Monday the 30th September to 8:00a.m. on Tuesday 1st October. We are fully cognizant that persons across multiple jurisdictions and time zones access the Law Courts website on a daily basis and we are aiming to move from the downtime period into the relaunch, as seamlessly as possible.”
To this end, the Law Courts have expanded our existing relationship with long-time strategic partner, vLex, which is an online platform that provides access to the Cayman Islands Law Reports as well as laws reports from other jurisdictions, to make searching for unreported and reported Cayman Islands judgments easier. During this time, vLex has offered a free 30-day trial for new and existing subscribers, whereby local practitioners and members of the Cayman Islands public can access all vLex products.
Existing subscribers of the www.judicial.ky portal will be emailed new login details without the need to re-register, whereas new subscribers will be able to register directly on the new website as of 1 October.
