The Cayman Islands has a population of 63,415 (Cayman Islands Government) and an area of 264 square kilometres, making it the world’s twentieth smallest nation or territory by geographical area and 35th smallest by population (United Nations Statistics Division). As a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, there exist many connections to other parts of the world that are geographical, legal and socio-political; yet the Cayman Islands and other such territories exhibit traits that may be described as insular or openly international. The British Overseas Territories amount to 14 distinct and effectively self-governing territories that are spread across the globe. Indeed, of the 50 remote islands gazetted by Schalansky (Atlas of remote Islands: Fifty Islands I have never set foot on and never will, Penguin Books, London, 2010), 20 of these islands share a heritage with the former British Empire and, for those with a population and operant legal system, they share the basic underpinning of the English common law [Eight are, or have been, part of a British Overseas Territory; 12 are part of a Commonwealth Nation with the UK monarch as the head of state (aside from Banaba Island in Kiribati which is a presidential republic but still a member of the Commonwealth of Nations)]. Whilst geographically remote, the British Overseas Territories share a direct connection with elements of supervisory governance (as did the now independent Commonwealth Nations) still exercisable by the UK’s Government in London, UK. This article will explore the provision of legal education, the diversity of the judiciary and the issues associated with jury size, juror selection and fair, impartial decision making in the Cayman Islands in order to explore the concepts of insularity, internal connectivity and remoteness in law for this particular British Overseas Territory (further references in the text, abbreviated as BOT).

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开曼群岛：加勒比海和其他英国海外领土与世隔绝的悖论

开曼群岛有 63,415 人（开曼群岛政府），面积 264 平方公里，是世界上地理面积第 20 小的国家或领土，人口第 35 小的国家或领土（联合国统计司）。作为加勒比地区的英国海外领土，与世界其他地区存在许多地理、法律和社会政治方面的联系；然而，开曼群岛和其他此类领土表现出的特征可能被描述为孤立的或公开的国际化。英国海外领土共有 14 个不同且有效的自治领土，分布在全球各地。事实上，在 Schalansky 宪报刊登的 50 个偏远岛屿中（偏远岛屿地图集：我从未涉足也永远不会涉足的五十个岛屿，企鹅图书，伦敦，2010 年），其中 20 个岛屿与前大英帝国共享遗产，对于那些拥有人口和有效法律制度的岛屿，它们共享英国普通法的基本基础[八个是或曾经是英国海外领土的一部分；12 是英联邦国家的一部分，以英国君主为国家元首（除了基里巴斯的巴纳巴岛，这是一个总统制共和国，但仍然是英联邦成员）]。虽然地理位置偏远，但英国海外领土与英国伦敦的英国政府仍可行使的监督治理要素（就像现在独立的英联邦国家一样）有着直接的联系。本文将探讨法律教育的提供、司法机构的多样性以及与陪审团规模、陪审员选择和公平、