Abbots v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1979 |
| Date | 1979 |
| Year | 1979 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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31 cases
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Pratt et Al v Attorney General et Al
...judges in Jamaica would have had the like power to stay a long delayed execution, as foreshadowed by Lord Diplock in Abbott v. Attorney-General of Trinidad and Tobago [1979] 1 W.L.R. 1342 when he said at page 1348:- "In such a case, which is without precedent and, in their Lordships' view,......
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R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Hindley
...judges in America would have had the like power to stay a long delayed execution, as foreshadowed by Lord Diplock in Abbott v The Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago [1979] 1 WLR 1342 at 1348 when he said: "in such a case, which is without precedent and, in their Lordships view, would i......
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Neville Lewis and Others v Attorney General of Jamaica and Another
...not at all follow that the whole process is beyond review by the courts. Indeed it was accepted both by Lord Diplock in Abbott v. Attorney-General of Trinidad and Tobago [1979] 1 W.L.R. 1342, at p. 1346 and by Lord Goff of Chieveley in Reckley No. 2 at page 539C-E that there is a right to ......
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Elgizouli v Secretary of State for theHome Department
...stay a long-delayed execution” (emphasis added). Lord Griffiths relied on statements to like effect by Lord Diplock in Abbott v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago [1979] 1 WLR 1342, 1348 and Lord Templeman in Bell v Director of Public Prosecutions [1985] AC 937, 950. Moreover, at p 2......
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