Akar v Attorney General of Sierra Leone
Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
Judgment Date | 1969 |
Date | 1969 |
Year | 1969 |
Court | Privy Council |
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15 cases
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Hilroy Humphreys Claimant v Attorney General of Antigua and Barbuda Defendant. [ECSC]
...rules relating to the interpretation of the Constitution. [137] The letter and spirit doctrine is derived from the case of AKAR v ATTORNEY GENERAL OF SIERRA LEONE (1969) 3 WLR 970. The case essentially concerned an attempt by the appellant to maintain his citizenship of Sierra Leone, being ......
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Payne v Attorney General
...or other official instruments, acts or transactions which contravene those provisions Akar v. Attorney-General of Sierra Leone [1970] A.C. 853: [1969] 3 All E.R. 384 P.C. That order goes on to state:– 369 “And accordingly where the words “St. Christopher, Nevis and Anguilla” occur in any su......
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2 books & journal articles
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The rule of law and good governance: a constitutional 'conclusive evidence' clause and Re Aubrey Norton
...the appointment of members of the Judiciary. They had not been so appointed. 71 See supra n. 64, at p. 280-281. 72 See supra n. 64. 73 [1970] A.C. 853. this case required, first, that the amendment should have been passed by two successive sessions of the House of Representatives between wh......
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