Quincy Mc Ewan v The Attorney General of Guyana
Jurisdiction | Caribbean States |
Judge | Saunders,Mme Justice Rajnauth-Lee,Barrow,Mr. Justice Saunders,Mr. Justice Anderson,Mr. Justice Barrow,Wit |
Judgment Date | 13 November 2018 |
Neutral Citation | [2018] CCJ 30 AJ |
Date | 13 November 2018 |
Docket Number | CCJ Appeal No. GYCV2017/015 |
Court | Caribbean Court of Justice (Appellate Jurisdiction) |
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48 cases
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Jay Chandler v The State
...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 heard and upheld appeals from Barbados against mandatory death sentences under section 2 of the Offences......
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Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago v Vijay Maharaj Substituted on behalf of the Estate of Satnarayan Maharaj for Satnarayan Maharaj and another
...edition, the argument made in the first edition was accepted by that court in McEwan v Attorney General of Guyana [2018] CCJ 30 (AJ); 94 WIR 332, in which the main judgment was given by Saunders P. McEwan concerned the savings clause in the constitution of Guyana. The law under challenge w......
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Marcus Bisram v The Director of Public Prosecutions
...21 WIR 548 (DM CA); Matthew v The State (2004) 64 WIR 412 (TT PC); McCulloch v Maryland 17 US 316 (1819); McEwan v A-G of Guyana [2018] CCJ 30 (AJ) (GY), (2019) 94 WIR 332; Nervais v R [2018] CCJ 19 (AJ) (BB), (2018) 92 WIR 178; Nicholas v R (1998) 193 CLR 173; R v Canterbury and St August......
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Merickston Nicholson v Anna Magdalena Ahrer Nicholson
...v R [2021] CCJ 6 (AJ) BZ; Maya Leaders Alliance v A-G of Belize [2015] CCJ 15 (AJ) (BZ), (2015) 87 WIR 178; McEwan v A-G of Guyana [2018] CCJ 30 (AJ) (GY), (2019) 94 WIR 332; Merritt v Merritt [1970] 2 All ER 760; Nicholson v Nicholson (BZ CA, 19 May 2022); Nielsen v Barker (1982) 32 WIR ......
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COMMON LAW CONSTITUTIONALISM THROUGH METHODOLOGY.
...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 Stoner Jr, "Natural Law, Common Law and the Constitution"......
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State Obligations under the Inter-American Human Rights System concerning Unhealthy Diets: An Opportunity to Advance NCD Prevention in the English-Speaking Caribbean?
...Caribbean to adopt comprehensive measures to reduce unhealthy diets. The above 140 141 142 143 [2022] ECSC J0705-1 [2022] ECSC J0829-2 [2018] CCJ 30 AJ See American Convention on Human Rights art State Obligations under the Inter-American Human Rights System concerning Unhealthy Diets: An O......