Commissioner of Police v Woods (Bursel)

JurisdictionBahamas
Year1990
Date1990
CourtCourt of Appeal (Bahamas)

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3 cases
  • Superintendent of Police (AG) Wendell Lucas v David Neeranjan
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • 31 January 2023
    ...Proceeds of Crime Act and the Indian Prevention of Corruption Act: See Hackl v Financial Intelligence Unit and Another 2 and Commissioner of Police v Woods (Bursel) 41 Mr. Hosein submitted that an application for a PUWO only requires reasonable suspicion, which is a much lower threshold tha......
  • DPP v Thwaites and Others
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 31 July 2012
    ...to the provisions of the Jamaica (Constitution) Order in Council 1962, which I will deal with under issue (c). 60 The case of Commissioner of Police v Woods, (1990) 54 WIR 1, also relied on by the respondents, does not take the matter any further, as in that case the impugned provision, se......
  • Thwaites v DPP and Another; Morrison v DPP and Another; Thwaites v DPP and Another; Hyde v DPP and Another
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 18 December 2008
    ...the purposes of dealing with the situation that exists during that period of public emergency." 26 Counsel relied on the case of Commissioner of Police v Woods (1990) 54 W.I.R. 1 in support of his submission that legislation which makes a criminal offence retroactive is contrary to the con......