Taitt v The State

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
JudgeLord Hope
Judgment Date08 November 2012
Neutral Citation[2012] UKPC 38
Date08 November 2012
Docket NumberAppeal No 0002 of 2012
CourtPrivy Council
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8 cases
  • The Queen v Osagie Ehi-Palmer
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 9 December 2016
    ...be addressed not in the abstract but in the context of the particular case. 56 We note that in Taitt v. State of Trinidad and Tobago [2012] UKPC 38, [2012] 1 WLR 3730 [16], Lord Hope of Craighead (giving the judgment of the Board), cited R v. Robertson [1968] 1 WLR 1767 and R v. Berry (1977......
  • Hunte and Khan v The State (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 16 July 2015
    ...clear cut. They all involve people who suffer from mental illness or disability. In Benjamin and Ganga v The State [2012] UKPC 8 and Taitt v The State [2012] UKPC 38, the Board referred back to the Court of Appeal of Trinidad and Tobago the issue of whether the imposition of the death pen......
  • Mapp and Bissoon v The State
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • 21 July 2016
    ...on the mental state of the appellant falls into the category of material that is plainly capable of belief. 196 In Taitt v. The State [2012] UKPC 38, the Privy Council noted that where evidence of mental incapacity is raised as a plea in bar, the proper time for the assessment of that fact ......
  • Benjamin and Ganga v The State
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • 28 July 2017
    ...Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2017 (27th edn Oxford University Press, NY 2016) D12.5 (f); R v Marcantonio [2016] EWCA Crim 14. 24 [2012] UKPC 38 25 R v Berry (1977) 66 Cr App R 156. 26 Walls (n 8) [38]. 27 CAT Report of 24 February 2014 p 19. 28 Ibid p 7. 29 See for e.g. CAT Report of 25......
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