Jones v Attorney General of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Court | Privy Council |
| Judgment Date | 1995 |
| Date | 1995 |
| Year | 1995 |
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29 cases
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The Queen v Peter Hughes
...the death penalty discretionary in what was then the colony of Saint Lucia. Similarly, as the Board observed in Jones v Attorney-General of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas [1995] 1 WLR 891, 895A, if any such radical change in the law had been intended, it is inconceivable that it would hav......
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Newton Spence Appellant v The Queen Respondent [ECSC]
...by the courts, for well over a century, to mean a mandatory death sentence. See Larry R Jones v Attorney General of The Bahamas (1995) 1 WLR p.891 where the Privy Council held that notwithstanding the word "liable", in a similarly worded provision, the plain meaning of the section was that ......
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Thomas and Another v Baptiste and Others
... ... of the Supreme Court) and (3) The Attorney General Respondents [1999] UKPC ... They observe, however, that the Constitution of The Bahamas which was under consideration in that case does not include ... ...
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Bowe and another v The Queen
...correct and was not challenged in argument. It is plain from the history briefly summarised in Jones v Attorney-General of the Bahamas [1995] 1 WLR 891, 894-895, that the common law rule which required sentence of death to be passed on a defendant convicted of murder was given effect in Th......
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The privy council: the mandatory death penalty is inhuman and degrading treatment
...of the Act also gives the Court of Appeal the power to 10 Ibid, para 5. 11 Ibid, para 7. 12 Jones v Attorney-General of the Bahamas [1995] 1 WLR 891. 13 Ibid, 894-895. 14 The Judgment para 8. quash any sentence it deems necessary and to pass any other sentence warranted in law by the verdic......