Abbots v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1979
Date1979
Year1979
CourtPrivy Council
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  • Pratt et Al v Attorney General et Al
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 2 November 1993
    ...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,......
  • Neville Lewis and Others v Attorney General of Jamaica and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 12 September 2000
    ...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 ......
  • Elgizouli v Secretary of State for theHome Department
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 25 March 2020
    ...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......
  • R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Hindley
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 5 November 1998
    ...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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