Guerra v Baptiste
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 06 November 1995 |
| Date | 06 November 1995 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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38 cases
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Reckley v The Minister for Public Safety and Immigration et Al
...nevertheless extended the stay of execution until after the hearing and determination of the appeal in the Trinidadian case of Guerra v. Baptiste and Others [1995] 3 W.L.R. 891, in which the Privy Council was being invited to reconsider the decision in de Freitas v. Benny. Judgment in the ......
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Henfield v Attorney General of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas ; Farrington v Minister of Public Safety and Immigration and Others
...but rather as a norm which may be departed from if the circumstances of the case so require. This is shown by two contrasting cases, Guerra v. Baptiste [1996] A.C. 397, from Trinidad, and Reckley v. Minister of Public Safety and Immigration (No. 2) [1996] A.C. 527, from The Bahamas. In Gue......
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Joseph and Boyce v Attorney General et Al
...or degrading punishment or other treatment’.” The principles established in Pratt and Morgan were explained by Lord Goff of Cheveley in Guerra v. Baptiste [1996] 1 A.C. 397 at pages 413F and 414H as follows: “[N]o fixed time is specified for the period within which execution should take pla......
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3 books & journal articles
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Fundamental Rights
...and others (1998) 3 W.L.R. 208 (P.C) from the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Lincoln Anthony Guerra v. Ciprian Baptist and others (1996) 1 A.C. 397 (P.C.) from the High Court of Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and Noel Riley and Others v. Attorney-General of Jamaica , (1983) 1A.C. 719 (P.C.),......
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Reading Text and Polity: The Case for a Caribbean Supreme Court
...supra note 161, at 368. 200 Pratt and Morgan v. Attorney-General and Others (1993) 43 W.I.R. 340. 201 Guerra v. Baptiste and Others [1995] 3 W.L.R. 891. 202 Hensfield and Farrington v. Attorney-General and Others [1996] 3 W.L.R. 1079. 203 Quoted in The Barbados Advocate , Thursday, November......
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Constitutional reform and the quest for a West Indian hermeneutics
... ... Attorney-General and Others, 315 the Trinidad case of Guerra v. Baptists and Others 316 and the Bahamian case of Hensfield and Farrington v. Attorney General of the Bahamas and Others 3l7 which ... 315 Pratt and Morgan v. Attorney-General and Others (1993) 43 W.I.R ... 316 Guerra v. Baptiste and Others [1995] 3 W.L.R. 891 ... 317 Hensfield and Farrington v. Attorney-General and Others [1996] 3 ... W.L.R. 1079 ... the ... ...