Kemrajh Harrikissoon v Attorney-General

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1979
Date1979
Year1979
CourtPrivy Council

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  • Tapper el al v Director of Public Prosecutions el al
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 8 February 1999
    ...at common law. 187 In that case Kerr, J.A. at page 314 in stating what should be the proper approach quoted Lord Diplock in Kemrajh Harrikisson v. Attorney General (1979) 31 W.I.R. 348 at 349: “The notion that whenever there is a failure by an organ of government or public authority or publ......
  • Adrian Nation v DPP and Attorney General of Jamaica
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 15 July 2011
    ...the Bail Act. He relied for the submission on a number of authorities:- Harrikssoon v. Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago [1979] 31 W.I.R. 348 at p. [349], in which Lord Diplock, stated, among other things- ‘The right to apply to the High Court…for redress when any human right or fund......
  • Maurice Arnold Tomlinson v Television Jamaica Ltd and Others
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 15 November 2013
    ...review. 304 It seems that there has been total disregard for Lord Diplock's important words in Kemrajn Harrikissoon v Attorney General (1979) 31 WIR 348, a case involving a public officer who had bypassed other available remedies and arrived in the Constitutional Court of the Republic of T......
  • Dawn Satterswaite v The Assets Recovery Agency
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 25 May 2021
    ...for that proposition (see Director of Public Prosecutions v Michael Feurtado and the Attorney General (1979) 16 JLR 519 and Kemrajh Harrikissoon v Attorney General (1979) 31 WIR 348). Queen's Counsel pointed out though that section 25 of the Constitution had been repealed, and although the......
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