Pivotte v The Queen

JurisdictionCaribbean States
Judgment Date1995
Date1995
Year1995
CourtCourt of Appeal (Eastern Caribbean States)
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8 cases
  • The Queen v Rennie Gilbert
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 21 Marzo 2002
    ...satisfactory but held that the judge should have followed and applied the decision of the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal in Pivotte v The Queen (1995) 50 WIR 114. This was a decision which rejected the approach adopted by the English Court of Appeal in R v Chance [1988] QB 932 and held......
  • R v Duncan (Prince) and Herman Ellis
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 1 Febrero 2008
    ...Gilbert (supra). This was an appeal from a decision of the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal (Grenada) (the ECCA). The ECCA had, in Pivotte v. The Queen (1995) 50 W.I.R. 114, rejected the approach adopted by the English Court of Appeal in R v Chance (supra) and held that the corroboration ......
  • Gregory Burton Appellant v The Queen Respondent [ECSC]
    • St Lucia
    • Court of Appeal (Saint Lucia)
    • 12 Enero 2004
    ...and the recent cases of St. Clair Simon v R Crim App No. 5 of 1991 (Antigua Barbuda); Joseph Shane Merchant v R Crim App No. 2 of 1995 and Pivotte v R Crim App No. 11 of 1995 which lay down certain requirements or directions which should guide Judges in giving such a warning and the reasons......
  • Williams (Eric) and Dindial Khublall v The State
    • Guyana
    • Court of Appeal (Guyana)
    • Invalid date
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