Gairy vs. Attorney General of Grenada

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
JudgeLord Bingham of Cornhill
Judgment Date19 June 2001
Neutral Citation[2001] UKPC 30
Date19 June 2001
Docket NumberAppeal No. 29 of 2000
Year2001
CourtPrivy Council
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  • Seepersad (A Minor) v Ayers-Caesar and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 18 February 2019
    ...law matters, whether administrative law or constitutional law (which, as Lord Bingham remarked in Gairy v Attorney General of Grenada [2001] UKPC 30; [2002] 1 AC 167, para 21, are “fairly [to] be regarded as sui generis”). (4) Section 8 of the Judicial Review Act of Trinidad and Tobago expr......
  • Dowling and Others v The Minister for Finance and Another
    • Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Ireland)
    • 25 April 2023
    ...defendant should not be oppressed by successive suits where one would do…’ The position is still more succinctly expressed in Gairy v. Attorney General of Grenada [2001] 3 WLR 779 where, speaking of the principle in Henderson and its offshoots Lord Bingham said:- ‘… These are rules of just......
  • Kevin Simmonds v The Minister of Labour and Social Security
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 29 April 2022
    ...4. Claimant's Attorneys-at-Law to prepare, file and serve this order. Brown Beckford J Jackson-Haisley J Barnaby J 1 See Gairy and another v Attorney General of Grenada [2001] UKPC 30; [2002] 1 AC 167 2 Ridge v Baldwin [1964] AC 40; [1963] 2 All ER 66; [1963] 2 WLR 935 3 See the dicta of ......
  • Paul Chen-Young v Eagle Merchant Bank Jamaica Ltd
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 26 April 2018
    ...and Written Reasons for Judgment, 44 Syracuse J. Int'l L. and Commerce 1 (2016) 72 [2013] JMCA Civ 28 73 [2008] CCJ 8 (AJ), para. 22 74 [2001] UKPC 30, para. 75 [1985] 1 AC 937, at page 953 76 [2002] UKPC D1, [2004] 1 AC 379, at paras 52–55 77 “In the determination … of any criminal char......
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6 books & journal articles
  • Foreign sovereign immunity in the caribbean: a case for legislative intervention
    • United States
    • Georgetown Journal of International Law No. 53-1, October 2021
    • 1 October 2021
    ...85 (St. Vincent); State Liability and Proceedings Act 1966, Cap. 8:02 (Trin & Tobago). Further, see Gairy v. Att’y General of Grenada [2001] UKPC 30, [2002] AC 167 (appeal taken from Gren.)); Wilmott-Francis v. Cooke (1995) JM 1995 SC 30 (Jam.); Kirvek Mgmt. & Consulting Services Ltd. v. At......
  • Our Inherent Constitution
    • Jamaica
    • Transitions in Caribbean Law The habits of constitutionalism
    • 21 November 2013
    ...Sharma v Antoine [2006] UKPC 57, (2006) 69 WIR 379 (PC T&T) [14]. 29. Lewis v AG (2000) 57 WIR 275 (PC Ja). 30. Ibid 309. 31. Gairy v AG [2001] UKPC 30, (1999) 59 WIR 174 [11] (Gren); Lasalle v AG (1972) 20 WIR 361 (CA T&T); Mohammed v State (1998) 53 WIR 444, 447 (PC T&T). 32. Thomas v Bap......
  • Judicial Independence as an Indispensable Feature of the Rule of Law and Democracy: Implications for the Commonwealth Caribbean
    • Jamaica
    • Transitions in Caribbean Law The habits of constitutionalism
    • 21 November 2013
    ...v Fisher [1980] AC 319, (1979) 44 WIR 107 (PC Ber); Pratt and Morgan v AG [1993] 4 All ER 769, [1993] 43 WIR 340 (PC Ja); Gairy v AG No 2 [2001] UKPC 30 (Gren). 220 Judicial Independence as an Indispensable Feature of the Rule of Law Khoyratty, 67 the respondent was charged with a non-baila......
  • The role of the courts in developing principles of legitimate expectation and creating pro edural and substantive legal rights in commonwealth caribbean publi law
    • Barbados
    • Caribbean Law Review No. 13-2, December 2003
    • 1 December 2003
    ...15(2)ol the Antigua Constirtution. 46. lord Diplock, “The Protection of the Law”. (October, 1978) Wll J 11 at 15. 47. 12001] JCJ No 30, [2001] UKPC 30. Guyana, ** was not available under the common law. In so doing, their Lordships overruled Jaundoo on that point. In Gairy, the Privy Counci......
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