Jabari Sensimania Nervais v The Queen
Jurisdiction | Caribbean States |
Judge | Sir Dennis Byron,Saunders,Wit,Hayton,Anderson,Rajnauth-Lee,Barrow,Mr. Justice Barrow |
Judgment Date | 27 June 2018 |
Neutral Citation | [2018] CCJ 18 AJ,[2018] CCJ 19 AJ |
Docket Number | CCJ Appeal No. BBCR2017/002 |
Court | Caribbean Court of Justice (Appellate Jurisdiction) |
Date | 27 June 2018 |
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Attorney General v Anthony Henry
...Attorney General v Joseph and Boyce [2006] CCJ 1 (AJ) applied; Ong Ah Chuan v Public Prosecutor [1981] AC 648 applied; Jabari Sensimania Nervais v The Queen [2018] 4 LRC 545 considered; Jamaicans for Justice v Police Service Commission and another [2019] UKPC 12 considered; Commissioner o......
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Jay Chandler v The State
...the CCJ has, as it is entitled to do, declined to follow the Board's judgment in Matthew in an appeal from Barbados, Nervais v R [2018] CCJ 19 (AJ); [2018] 4 LRC 545, and in an appeal from Guyana, McEwan v Attorney General of Guyana [2018] CCJ 30 (AJ); [2019] 1 LRC 34 In Nervais, the CCJ he......
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Belize International Services Ltd v The Attorney General of Belize
...177 Clause (d), Cap. 4. 178 Clause (e), Cap 4. 179 Ibid. 180 Ibid. 181 Ibid. 182 Ibid. 183 Nervais v The Queen and Severin v The Queen [2018] CCJ 19 (AJ) [22], [37]; Maya Leaders Alliance v Attorney General of Belize [2015] CCJ 15 (AJ); Lucas v The Chief Education Office et al [2015] CCJ 6 ......
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Solomon Marin Jr v The Queen
...v The State [2004] UKPC 33 (TT), [2004] 4 LRC 777; Minister of Home Affairs v Fisher (1979) 44 WIR 107; Nervais v R; Severin v R [2018] CCJ 19 (AJ), (2018) 92 WIR 178 (BB); Observer Publications Ltd v A-G [2001] 1 LRC 37 (ECSC CA) (AB); Observer Publications Ltd v A-G [2001] UKPC 11, ......
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COMMON LAW CONSTITUTIONALISM THROUGH METHODOLOGY.
...of a generally generous interpretive approach to human rights and a more skeptical approach to pre-colonial laws. See e.g. Nervais v R, [2018] CCJ 19 (AJ) [Nervais] ; McEwan v AG of Guyana, [2018] CCJ 30 (AJ) at paras 29-34, 41-45 (86) See Leckey, supra note 40 at 18-19. (87) See James R St......
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Transitional Justice: To what Extent does Trinidadian Law Regarding Capital Punishment for Murder Continue to be Hindered from Progress on Account of British Colonialism, Inciting the Need for Legal Reform?
...exceptionalism’. 92 This echoes the notion of ‘judicial 81 [2018] CV 2007-04568. 82 ibid [12]. 83 ibid [45-50]. 84 ibid [47]. 85 [2018] CCJ 19 (AJ). 86 ibid [58]. 87 Hood and Seemungal (n 2). 88 Matthew (n 2). 89 Rishard Khan, ‘Ramesh: Gov’t needs will-power to reinstate death penalty’ Trin......