Zuniga and Others v Attorney General of Belize

JurisdictionCaribbean States
JudgeJustices Nelson,Saunders,Hayton,Mr Justice Adrian Saunders,Justices Wit,Anderson
Judgment Date24 January 2014
Neutral Citation[2014] CCJ 2 AJ
Docket NumberCCJ Appeal No. CV8 of 2012
CourtCaribbean Court of Justice (Appellate Jurisdiction)
Date24 January 2014

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16 cases
  • Marcus Bisram v The Director of Public Prosecutions
    • Caribbean Community
    • Caribbean Court of Justice
    • 15 March 2022
    ...A-G [2007] 71 WIR 391 (TT PC); Watson v R (2004) 64 WIR 241 (JM PC); Williams, Re (1978) 26 WIR 133 (GY CA); Zuniga v A-G of Belize [2014] CCJ 2 (AJ) (BZ), (2014) 84 WIR 101. Legislation referred: Antigua and Barbuda — Criminal Procedure Act, Cap 117, Magistrate's Code of Procedure Act, ......
  • Jabari Sensimania Nervais v The Queen; Dwayne Omar Severin v The Queen
    • Caribbean Community
    • Caribbean Court of Justice
    • 25 January 2018
    ...& Wilson Thirimbu Mwangi v. Republic [Writ Petition No.15 of 2015], [58]]. 49 In Zuniga and others v. Attorney General of Belize [ [2014] CCJ 2 (AJ)], we observed that in relation to mandatory or mandatory minimum sentences courts should always examine such penalties with “a wary eye” as ma......
  • Jason Jones v The Attorney General and The Equal Opportunity Commission, The Trinidad and Tobago Council of Evangelical Churches, The Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha of Trinidad and Tobago
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • High Court (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • 12 April 2018
    ...Appeal Board v. Maraj [2010] U.K.P.C. 29 85) Fox v. the Queen [2002] 2 A.C. 284 86) Zuniga & Ors v. The Attorney General of Belize [2014] 5 L.R.C. 1 at 23 87) Nyambirai v. National Social Security Authority [1996] 1 L.R.C. 64 88) Bank Mellat v. HM Treasury [2013] U.K.S.C. 39 89) Peter W Ho......
  • Dianne Jhamilly Hadeed v The Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • High Court (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • 25 July 2019
    ...UKPC 42 at paragraph 27.”Profession Act and replacing it with “any person”. 214 In The Attorney General of Belize v Zuniga and others [2014] CCJ 2 (AJ), the Court provided a review of the severance doctrine in relation to the Belize Constitution and observed: “[88] In mandating that a law i......
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1 books & journal articles
  • COMMON LAW CONSTITUTIONALISM THROUGH METHODOLOGY.
    • Canada
    • McGill Law Journal Vol. 65 No. 2, December 2019
    • 1 December 2019
    ...UKHL 46 at para 40. (141) See R v Home Secretary, ex parte Venables, [1997] UKHL 25, [1998] AC 407 at 526. (142) Belize (AG) v Zuniga, [2014] CCJ 2 (AJ) at para 40 (Saunders (143) Ibid. (144) Evans, supra note 101 at para 51. (145) Baptiste, supra note 128 at 21. (146) Nervais, supra note 8......

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