R v Sam Chin

JurisdictionCaribbean States
Judgment Date1961
Date1961
CourtFederal Supreme Court (West Indies)
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4 cases
  • Outridge v The State
    • Guyana
    • Court of Appeal (Guyana)
    • 30 November 1982
    ...collision to the driver of Hardowar's car. Counsel for the appellants sought assistance for their arguments from certain cases. There was R. v. Sam Chin, (1961) 3 W.I.R. 156, where Hallinan, C.J., at page 158, following the case of R. v. Prater, (1960) 44 Cr. App. Rep. 83, spoke of the ‘de......
  • Grant et Al v Director of Public Prosecutions
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 27 July 1979
    ...v. Hugh O'Connor (S.C. Crim. A. 111/77 — Dec. 18, 1978 — unreported). Both decisions followed that of the former federal supreme Court in R. v. Sam Chin (1961) 3 W.I.R. 156. The contention of counsel that the decisions in these cases on the point in question were either obiter or given per ......
  • R v O'connor
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 18 December 1978
    ...must be specific and in writing and upon challenge proper evidence of its existence should be produced. He submitted that the case of R. v. Sam Chin (post) was distinguishable on two grounds:– (i) that on the form of indictment, the authority preferring it was expressly stated and (ii) that......
  • Grant v DPP
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • Invalid date

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