Spence v The Queen; Hughes v The Queen
Jurisdiction | Caribbean States |
Judgment Date | 2002 |
Year | 2002 |
Date | 2002 |
Court | Court of Appeal (Eastern Caribbean States) |
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21 cases
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Attorney General Appellant v [1] Bernard Coard [2] Callistus Bernard [3] Lester Redhead [4] Christopher Stroude [5] Hudson Austin [6] Liam James [7] Leon Cornwall [8] John Anthony Ventour [9] Dave Bartholomew [10] Ewart Layne [11] Colville Mc Barnette [12] Selwyn Stachan [13] Cecil Prime Respondents [ECSC]
...narrowly and restrictively, in contrast to the liberal approach to the fundamental rights provisions contained in sections 2 to 15; The Queen v. Peter Hughes20. In written submissions and in oral argument counsel urged that to read a section 72(1) sentencing power exception into section 3(1......
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Louis Smith v Director of Public Prosecutions
...by procedural rules. Reliance was placed on Coard and ors v The Attorney General for Grenada [2007] UKPC 7, Hughes v R; Spence v R [2002] 2 LRC 531 and R v Secretary of State for the Home Department ex parte Ruddock and ors [1987] 1 WLR 1987 (‘ ex parte Respondent's submissions 25 Mrs Mar......
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Kizza Sealey and Another v The State
...given in the judgment of the Board in the appeals from the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal in Reyes v The Queen [2002] 2 WLR 1034 and R v Hughes [2002] 2 AC 259. The Court of Appeal of Trinidad and Tobago has reserved its judgment on this point in the appeal heard by it in Roodal v The S......
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The Queen v Peter Hughes
... ... 5 Their Lordships pause at this point to notice that on 11 November 1998, after a retrial in the High Court of Saint Vincent, Newton Spence was convicted of murder. He was sentenced to death, by virtue of section 159 of the Criminal Code of Saint Vincent which makes the death sentence mandatory in cases of murder. On 19 April 2000, on the same day as it granted special leave in the case of Hughes, their Lordships' Board granted Spence ... ...
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