DPP v Jaikaran Tokai
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1994 |
| Date | 1994 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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59 cases
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Thomas and Another v Baptiste and Others
...the delay has been forthcoming. Their Lordships are, however, constrained to repeat what was laid down by the Board in D.P.P. v. Tokai [1996] A.C. 856 that the Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago affords the accused a right to a fair trial but not a right to a speedy trial or to a trial wi......
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Heron (Michael) v DPP and Attorney General for Jamaica
...v Director of Public Prosecutions and another (1996) 48 WIR 346, and Director of Public Prosecutions and another v Jaikaran Tokai (1994) 48 WIR 376. 98 In its reasons for judgment, the Supreme Court referred to the case Herbert Bell v The Director of Public Prosecutions and another (1985)......
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Hinds v Attorney General of Barbados and another
...1 WLR 522 at 530; Boodram v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago [1996] AC 842 at 854; and Director of Public Prosecutions v Tokai [1996] AC 856 at 870. In support of his contention that res judicata applies in principle to claims for constitutional relief as to other claims Mr Guthrie......
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3 books & journal articles
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Judicial Independence as an Indispensable Feature of the Rule of Law and Democracy: Implications for the Commonwealth Caribbean
...71 WIR 391, 409; Chief of Police v Nias (2008) 73 WIR 201 (CAECS St K-N). 64. Sookermany v DPP (1996) 48 WIR 346 (CA T&T); DPP v Tokai (1994) 48 WIR 376 (HC T&T). 65. DPP v Nasralla [1967] 2 AC 238, (1967) 10 WIR 299 (PC Ja); AG v Caterpillar Americas Co (2000) 62 WIR 135 (CA Guy); Campbell......
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The Common Law and the Litigation of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms Before the Privy Council
...5) 247–48. 10. [1969] 1 AC 304 (PC Ja) 319. The case was concerned with the admissibility of illegally obtained evidence. 11. DPP v Tokai [1996] AC 856 (PC T&T) 862. Transitions in Caribbean Law A number of cases have asserted either that sections of the Bill of Rights do no more than ‘codi......
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COMMON LAW CONSTITUTIONALISM THROUGH METHODOLOGY.
...Prosecutions v Nasralla, [1967] 2 AC 238 at 247-48, [1967] 2 All ER 161 (PC, Jamaica). (59) See Director of Public Prosecutions v Tokai, [1996] AC 856 at 862, [1996] 3 WLR 149 (PC, Trinidad and (60) See Roger Masterman & Jo Eric Khushal Murkens, "Skirting Supremacy and Subordination: Th......