Whitfield v Attorney-General
| Jurisdiction | Bahamas |
| Date | 1989 |
| Year | 1989 |
| Court | Supreme Court (Bahamas) |
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19 cases
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Paul Chen-Young v Eagle Merchant Bank Jamaica Ltd
...by Mr Hylton to three cases from the region in order to illustrate the operation of the de facto doctrine. The first in time is Whitfield v Attorney-General 53, a decision of the Court of Appeal of The Bahamas. The issue arose in that case because it was said that, as a result of a deficien......
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Solomon Marin Jr v The Queen
...Tyson v R (2017) 92 WIR 328, [2018] 5 LRC 270 (ECSC CA) (VG); Walker v R [1993] UKPC 38, [1993] 2 LRC 371 (JM); Whitfield v A-G (1989) 44 WIR 1 (BS). Legislation referred to Antigua and Barbuda – Antigua and Barbuda Constitutional Order 1981; Barbados – Constitution of Barbados, Rev Ed ......
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Emma Hlppolyte Applicant v Attorney General Respondent [ECSC]
... ... (Const.) 867 ... 65 Counsel submitted that nothing in the St.Lucia Constitution prohibits any one from entering into a contract even in respect of some constitutional post. He then referred to Whitfield v A-G of the Bahamas (1989) L.R.C. (Const.) page 249.267 (f); and Hinds v Queen 1976 2 W.L.R. 366 1976 2 W.L.R. 366; 378 ... 66 The Solicitor-General then looked at section 90 of the Constitution and submitted that section 90(5) bore a different meaning to section 8 of ... ...
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Gilharry (d/b/a/ Gilharry's Bus Line) v Transport Board et Al
...the Public Authorities Protection Act to every circumstance in which it is invoked by the public authority was demonstrated in Whitfield v. Attorney General (1989) 44 W.I.R. 1, a decision of the Court of Appeal of The Bahamas. In that case, it was held, following the previous unreported dec......
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3 books & journal articles
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Judicial Independence as an Indispensable Feature of the Rule of Law and Democracy: Implications for the Commonwealth Caribbean
...2008–9, Conversations betwen the CCJ and the Faculty of Law UWI, Trinidad (November 2008, unpublished paper on ile with author). 12. (1989) 44 WIR 1 (SC Bah). Transitions in Caribbean Law such consultation to take place before the judge in question reached retirement age. This was possibly ......
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State proceedings in the Commonwealth Caribbean
...471. 155 See M. DeMerieux, supra n. 154, at pp.468-471. 156 See supra, under the rubric "The State", particularly nos. 19 and 20. 157 (1989) 44 W.I.R. 1 (S. C., Gonsalves-Sabola J.); (C.A., Henry P., Melville and Sir Frederick Smith JJ.A). 158 The proviso to Art. 96(1). 159 Ibid. Before he ......
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