Bell v Director. of Public Prosecutions
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1985 |
| Date | 1985 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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237 cases
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Carlton Bedminister Careem Bedminister Claimants v DPP Attorney General Defendants [ECSC]
...in the written submissions. At trial the following cases were referred to in argument;Bell v Director of Public Prosecution and Another (1980) 32 WIR 3171, Flowers (Alfred) v R [2000] 1 W.L.R. 23962, Nazereus Andrew v The Attorney General3, HM Advocate and Another v R [2003] 2 W.L.R. 317.4 ......
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Pratt et Al v Attorney General et Al
...that the taking of the condemned man's life was not 'by due process of law'." 11And as was asserted by Lord Templeman in Bell v. D.P.P. [1985] A.C. 937 where at page 950 he said:- "Their Lordships do not in any event accept the submission that prior to the Constitution the law of Jamaica, ......
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Alfred Flowers v The Queen
...that submissions relating to delay should not be raised for the first time before the Board. In Bell v. Director of Public Prosecutions [1985] A.C. 937 the appellant's appeal came before the Board after the appellant had claimed before the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal in Jamaica th......
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Jerome Dixon v R
...to the case of Tapper, it was submitted that it did not doubt the decision in Herbert Bell v the Director of Public Prosecutions [1985] 1 AC 937, where a stay was granted for the lengthy delay without any other prejudice. In support of this point, two decisions of the Caribbean Court of Jus......
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Case Law
...trial….. See section 14 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms (Constitutional Amendments), Jamaica Constitution Bell v DPP [1985] AC 937 Privy Council, Jamaica Prakash Boolell v The State (Mauritus) PC 39 of 2005 Mervin Cameron v The Attorney General [2018] JMFC Full 1 Abuse of ......
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The Common Law and the Litigation of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms Before the Privy Council
...delay was part of the legal culture and the ‘practice’ of the Jamaican court system. The Privy Council saw 22. Thornhill (n 18) 70. 23. [1985] 1 AC 937 (PC Ja). Transitions in Caribbean Law very precisely that this argument was an attempt ‘to whittle away the right of the applicant under th......
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The International Criminal Process and the Global Community
...a legal system that is infallible but to one that is fair;” and of Lord Templeman in Bell v. Director of Public Prosecutions (Jamaica), [1985] 1 A.C. 937, P.C., at 953, stating that “no court is infallible.” 57. IT-95-14-T of 20 December 1996. 58. IT-96-21-T of 25 September 1996. 59. See, f......
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REASONABLE TIME IN FAIR HEARING WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF SECTION 33(1) AND (4) OF THE 1979 CONSTITUTION
...may be exposed- see Barker v. Wingo 407 US S14; Folade v. Attorney General, Lagos State (1981) 2 N.C.L.R. 771, 777; Bell v. D.P.D (1985) A.C. 937 P.C." These four factors were also considered by Onu, J.S.C., in his lead judgment in the case - see page 571 B-C." - Per Ogudare, J.S.C., in Oke......