Modern Commonwealth Jurists (Africa and Asia) gathers the twentieth and twenty first century judges and lawyers of the common law jurisdictions of Africa and Asia that inherited the common law tradition through British colonial rule and adapted it to their own independent legal systems: Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Uganda, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Singapore among them. Their work extending common law doctrine, and in several cases opening the legal profession itself, to new nations and new generations of lawyers distinguishes this group from the English common law tradition's own historical core, grouped elsewhere in this subcategory, that their own countries' legal systems descend from.
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Defining CharacteristicModern jurists from African and Asian Commonwealth of Nations member states, connected through shared common law heritage and use of the English language stemming from British Empire origins. 1 Formation Year Browse By
Modern Commonwealth Jurists (Africa and Asia)
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WikipediaCommonwealth of Nations, lead section
an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of its predecessor, the British Empire
Commonwealth of Nations, lead section, Statute of Westminster sentence
The organization traces its formal origins to 1926 with the Balfour Declaration and was further established through the Statute of Westminster in 1931.
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