Mitchell v DPP

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Judgment Date1985
Date1985
Year1985
CourtPrivy Council

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6 cases
6 books & journal articles
  • Extra-Constitutional Notions in Australian Constitutional Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 16-3, September 1986
    • 1 September 1986
    ...[1986]LRC(Const)1(Nigeria CA); Mitchell vDPP[1985]LRC(Const)127(GrenadaHC),affirmed [1986]LRC(Const)35(CA),andsee also Mitchell vDPP [1986]AC73(PC).Thereis avastliteratureonthis subject. eg LWolf-Phillips, Constitutional Legitimacy: AStudyojthe DoctrineojNecessity(ndc1980); M M Stavsky,"The......
  • The privy council or a Caribbean final court of appeal?
    • Barbados
    • Caribbean Law Review No. 6-1, June 1996
    • 1 June 1996
    ...The Privy Council itself upheld the validity of that legislation in Andy Mitchell and Others v, The D.P. P.(1986) L.R.C. (Const.) 35; (1986) A.C.73. 4 By the Constitutional Judicature (Restoration) Act, No. 19 of 1991 and the West Indies Associated States Supreme Court (Grenada) Act (Re-ena......
  • Bibliography
    • Jamaica
    • Constitutional Development in the Commonwealth Caribbean
    • 18 April 2018
    ...of James Alva Bain as a member of the Public Service Commission , High Court Action No.3260 of 1987. Mitchell & Others v DPP and Another [1985] 3 WLR 724 (P.C.). Somerset v Stewart (1772) 98 ER 499 Official Publications Address by His Excellency Mr Bharrat Jagdeo President of the Republic o......
  • Introduction. Revolutionary Legality
    • Jamaica
    • Kelsen in the Grenada Court: Essays on Revolutionary Legality
    • 21 November 2008
    ...of Grenada v Bernard Coard and Others (Civil Appeal No. 10 of 2004). 57. [2007] UK PC 7. 58. [2002] 2 AC 259. 59. [2006] 1 WLR 1623. 60. [1986] AC 73. 61. [2002] 2 AC 235. xliv | Kelsen in the Grenada Court 62. See supra, note 58. 63. [2002] 2 AC 284. 64. See supra, note 59. ...
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