Harrikissoon v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago
Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
Judgment Date | 1979 |
Date | 1979 |
Court | Privy Council |
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Ianthe Harding Administratrix of the Estate of Alfred Harding Deceased [Substituted by Order of this Court Dated January 30, 2001] Appellant v [1] The Superintendent of Prisons [2] Attorney General of St. Lucia Respondents [ECSC]
...were a number of authorities in support of this statement of the law. 12 InHarrikissoon v the Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago (1980) AC 265, the point was clearly made by the Privy council that the notion that whenever there is a failure by an organ of government or a public authori......
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Solomon v Scotland
...Workers, [1978] A.C. 435; [1977] 3 W.L.R. 300; [1977] 3 All E.R. 70, referred to. (11) Harrikissoon v. Att.-Gen (Trinidad & Tobago), [1980] A.C. 265; [1979] 3 W.L.R. 62, followed. (12) Jaroo v. Att.-Gen. (Trinidad & Tobago), [2002] 1 A.C. 871; [2002] 2 W.L.R. 705, referred to. (13) Kirk Fre......
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David Penn Claimant v [1] Telecommunications Regulatory Authority [2] Attorney General Defendant
...they can be maintained) are best suited to a judicial review challenge. The Court is satisfied on the authority of Harrikissoon v Attorney-General of Trinidad and Tobago [1980] AC 265 that these claims should not properly advance under a constitutional challenge. In that case Lord Diplock ......
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Nolder Martin v Attorney General of Antigua and Barbuda
...exercised only in exceptional circumstances where there is a parallel remedy. In Harrikissoon v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago [1980] AC 265 268, Lord Diplock said with reference to the provisions in the Trinidad and Tobago (Constitution) Order in Council 1962 (SI 1962/1875): 'The......
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Constitutional damages, procedural due process and the Maharaj legacy : a comparative review of recent Commonwealth decisions (part 2)
...a fair hearing in Nigeria (1990) (2 ed) ch 6.nd[1971] 2 All ER 1278 (HL). 19Contra Harrikissoon v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago [1980] AC 265 (PC) where it held20that it was not every failure by an organ of government or a public authority or public officer to complywith the law t......
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Constitutional damages, procedural due process and the Maharaj legacy : a comparative review of recent Commonwealth decisions (part 1)
...arrestable offence. Nor was the section discriminatory, since35Thomas (n 34) 22.36Harrikissoon v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago [1980] AC 265 (PC) at 269; Ong AhChaun v Public Prosecutor [1981] 648 at 673; Boodram (n 32) 845; Maharaj (n 2) 399.37Roodal v The State [2003] UKPC 78. S......