By Lynn Elsey | 4 April 2018

Find out how the rule of law holds up around the world

Dreaming of practicing law from your bungalow on a palm-fringed Caribbean beach or placing your bets that the location of Europe’s centre of global finance in the post-Brexit world will be Amsterdam or Paris? The World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index might help influence the places you add, or subtract, from your opportunity short list.

The WJPs 2017-18 index ranks the rule of law across eight areas – constraints on government powers, absence of corruption, open government, fundamental rights, order and security, regulatory enforcement, civil justice and criminal justice – in 113 countries and jurisdictions.

Here are the top 10 followed by a few other places you might want to try out:

1. Denmark

2. Norway

3. Finland

4. Sweden

5. The Netherlands

6. Germany

7. New Zealand

8. Austria

9. Canada

10. Australia

11. UK

13. Singapore

16. Hong Kong

18. France

19. Bahamas

39. Greece