The Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands is established pursuant to section 21(a) of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands, as amended, as the highest court of the Virgin Islands and in it shall be reposed the supreme judicial power of the Territory. As used in this chapter, “Supreme Court” or “Court” means […]
(a) The Governor shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the Legislature, no fewer than three but no more than five justices and subject to the advice and consent of the Legislature, appoint a qualified person to fill any vacancy occurring in the office of justice in the Supreme Court. (b) No person may […]
(a) The Chief Justice presides at all sessions of the Supreme Court. (b) Whenever the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virgin Islands is, because of illness, disqualification, conflict, recusal, or by any other temporary absence disabled from actively performing his duties as Chief Justice, or those ex-officio duties imposed upon him by law, […]
(a) In addition to the justices appointed under subsection 22(a), the Chief Justice may appoint any judge of a court of record in the Virgin Islands or any senior or retired justice to sit as a designated justice of the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands. A retired judge may also be appointed as a […]
Pursuant to title 4 V.I.C. chapter 36, a justice of the Supreme Court shall be involuntarily retired from office when the Commission on Judicial Disabilities determines that the justice suffers from a mental or physical disability, including habitual intemperance, which prevents, or seriously interferes with, the proper performance of his judicial duties, and the Commission […]
(a) No justice who is a member of the Government Employees Retirement System, while receiving a retirement annuity in connection with retirement from service under this chapter, may engage in the practice of law before any of the courts of the Virgin Islands as an employee or officer of the Government of the Virgin Islands […]
(a) The Justices of the Supreme Court are subject to removal pursuant to title 4 V.I.C. chapter 36, and any justice removed may not exercise his office until exonerated. (b) A justice who becomes a candidate for an elective public office shall thereby forfeit his judicial office.
The Supreme Court shall make rules for the conduct of justices, both on and off the bench. In addition, the Supreme Court may adopt the relevant and applicable provisions of the American Bar Association Model Code of Judicial Conduct to govern the conduct of justices.
(a) The Chief Justice shall receive as compensation an annual salary fifteen percent higher than the annual salary of the presiding judge of the Superior Court, and each of the full-time associate justices shall receive an annual salary five thousand dollars lower than the annual salary of the Chief Justice. Justices of the Supreme Court […]
