How do litigants mitigate the risk of their confidential
information becoming public during proceedings in the British
Virgin Islands? The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court Civil Procedure
Rules (Revised Edition) 2023 (EC CPR)
apply to proceedings before the BVI Supreme Court. The EC CPR is
the primary source of the tools for preserving confidentiality in
BVI proceedings.
Are all hearings held in public in the BVI?
EC CPR Part 2 sets out the court's discretion as to where,
when and how it deals with cases. It provides that the court may
direct a hearing, or any part of a hearing, to take place in
private or in public. The default position is that a hearing in the
BVI court will proceed in public under principles of open justice
and transparency.
