(a) The Supreme Court shall have jurisdiction over all appeals arising from final judgments, final decrees or final orders of the Superior Court, or as otherwise provided by law.
(b) The Supreme Court shall have all inherent powers, including the power to issue all writs necessary to the complete exercise of its duties and jurisdiction under the laws of the Virgin Islands, including those orders necessary for the supervision of the judicial branch of the Virgin Islands. The Supreme Court has supervisory jurisdiction over the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands and all other courts of the judicial branch of the Virgin Islands. The Supreme Court's authority also includes jurisdiction of original proceedings for mandamus, prohibition, injunction, and similar remedies to protect its appellate jurisdiction.
(c) Upon an appeal from a judgment or an order, the Supreme Court may reverse or affirm, wholly or in part, or may modify the judgment or order appealed from, and each interlocutory judgment or intermediate or other order that it is authorized to review, and as to any or all of the parties. The Court shall thereupon render judgment of affirmance, judgment of reversal and final judgment upon the right of any or all of the parties, or judgment of modification thereon according to law, except where it may be necessary or proper to grant a new trial or hearing, when it may grant a new trial or hearing.
(d) The Supreme Court may transfer any action or proceeding, except one over which it has exclusive jurisdiction which does not depend upon the monetary amount sought, to any other court within the judicial branch, having jurisdiction of the subject matter if such other court has jurisdiction over the classes of persons named as parties. The Supreme Court may transfer to itself any action or proceeding originated or pending in another local court or administrative agency within the Territory upon a finding that such a transfer will promote the administration of justice. The Supreme Court shall provide, by rules of court, for the time and procedure for transfer and for review, including, among other things, provisions for the time and procedure for transfer with instructions for review of all or part of a decision, and for remand as improvidently granted.
(e) Regulation of bar. The Supreme Court has exclusive jurisdiction to regulate the admission of persons to the practice of law and the discipline of persons admitted to the practice of law.
(f)
(1) The Superior Court shall subject to the approval of the Supreme Court adopt the rules of court for the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands consistent with section 21(c) of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands.
(2) The Supreme Court shall adopt rules governing civil and criminal procedure, evidence, judicial discipline, disability, ethics, admission to and governance of the bar of the Virgin Islands, the administration of the judiciary and the practice and procedure in the courts of the judicial branch of the Virgin Islands and other matters of judicial administration.
(3 In carrying out the mandate of paragraph (2), the Chief Justice may appoint a committee to recommend the adoption of rules consisting of two judges of the Superior Court and at least two members of the Virgin Islands Bar Association.