Williams v Waterman

JurisdictionCaribbean States
Judgment Date1961
Date1961
Year1961
CourtFederal Supreme Court (West Indies)
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7 cases
  • Sookraj v Ceres
    • Guyana
    • Court of Appeal (Guyana)
    • 13 Marzo 1975
    ...that in law there was no evidence to support the charge. This, in my judgment, was a wrong conclusion on a point of law…” 13 Williams v. Waterman (1961) 3 W.I.R. 499 was a decision of the Federal Supreme Court (Archer, C.J., Wylie and Lewis, JJ.). The appellant was convicted in the Magis......
  • McClean v the Barbados Telephone Company Ltd
    • Barbados
    • High Court (Barbados)
    • 29 Mayo 1996
    ...“the Board made a legal error” to bring the matters raised in this appeal within the category of questions of law [see per Wylie J. in Williams v. Waterman (1961) 3 W.I.R. 499]. The grounds fairly stated must genuinely raise a question of law. 22 As to what constitutes a question of law, th......
  • McClean v Barbados Light and Power Company Ltd
    • Barbados
    • High Court (Barbados)
    • 31 Julio 1980
    ...“the Board made a legal error” to bring the matters raised in this appeal within the category of questions of law [see per Wylie J. in Williams v. Waterman (1961) 3 W.I.R. 499. The grounds fairly stated must genuinely raise a question of law. 6 As to what constitutes a question of law, the ......
  • Rolle v Attorney General
    • Bahamas
    • Supreme Court (Bahamas)
    • 13 Septiembre 1983
    ...a point of law alone but not upon any question of fact or of mixed fact and law. 5 In the decision of the Federal Supreme Court in Williams v. Waterman (1961) 3 W.I.R. 499, Wylie J. had this to say at page 501, letters D and E:– “The second ground alleges that the Court of Appeal erred in l......
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