Jones v Attorney General of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 1995 |
| Date | 1995 |
| Year | 1995 |
| Court | Privy Council |
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28 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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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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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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3 books & journal articles
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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......
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Reckley (No 2) and the Prerogative of Mercy: Act of Grace or Constitutional Safeguard?
...committee and to be heard by the committee in7 Art 92(3).8 Art 90(2).9Jones vAttorney-General of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas [1995] 1 WLR 891.10 Reckley vMinister of Public Safety and Immigration [1995] 3 WLR 390 (‘Reckley (No 1)’). Thepetition was successful on the basis that a stay sh......
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