Resident Magistrates’ Courts of Jamaica

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The Resident Magistrates’ Courts of Jamaica are lower-level trial courts that handle the majority of the country’s civil and criminal cases under the oversight of the Supreme Court.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf court system
lower court
trial court
alsoKnownAs Resident Magistrates’ Courts of Jamaica
surface form: RM Courts of Jamaica
appealsSupervisedBy Supreme Court of Jamaica
appealsTo Court of Appeal of Jamaica
composition Resident Magistrates
country Jamaica
courtLevel Court of Appeal of Jamaica
surface form: below Court of Appeal of Jamaica

Supreme Court of Jamaica
surface form: inferior to Supreme Court of Jamaica
function adjudication of civil disputes within statutory monetary limits
adjudication of minor criminal offences
governedBy Jamaican procedural rules
Jamaican statutes
handles civil cases
criminal cases
hears family law matters
small claims
some indictable offences
summary offences
jurisdiction Jamaica
legalSystem common law
legalTradition English law
surface form: English common law tradition
location parishes of Jamaica
organizedBy parish
overseenBy Supreme Court of Jamaica
partOf Judiciary of Jamaica
role first-instance court for most civil and criminal matters in Jamaica
subjectTo appellate review by higher courts in Jamaica
supervisingCourt Supreme Court of Jamaica

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Supreme Court of Jamaica supervises Resident Magistrates’ Courts of Jamaica
Resident Magistrates’ Courts of Jamaica alsoKnownAs Resident Magistrates’ Courts of Jamaica
this entity surface form: RM Courts of Jamaica
Parish Courts of Jamaica predecessor Resident Magistrates’ Courts of Jamaica
Judicature (Supreme Court) Act of Jamaica relatedTo Resident Magistrates’ Courts of Jamaica
this entity surface form: Judicature (Resident Magistrates) Act of Jamaica