Bowe (Junior) & Anor v. R. Rev 1 (Bahamas)
[2006] UKPC 10
Citation 1
…in Boyce v The Queen [2004] UKPC 32, [2005] 1 AC 400; Matthew v State of Trinidad and Tobago [2004] UKPC 33, [2005] 1 AC 433; and Watson v The Queen [2004] UKPC 34, [2005] 1 AC 472 to be effective to preclude challenge to an existing law (if that law had not been amended after the relevant date) on grounds of in…
Boyce & Anor v R (Barbados)
[2004] UKPC 32
Citation 2
…e to Barbados. The Board has unanimously reached the same conclusion in Lambert Watson v The Queen (The Attorney General intervening) [2004] UKPC 34, an appeal heard with the present appeals. It is in our opinion clear that the mandatory death penalty as imposed in Barbados amounts, as in other jurisdictions, to…
Chandler v The State (No 2) (Trinidad and Tobago)
[2022] UKPC 19
Citation 3
…”) and an appeal from Jamaica in Watson v The Queen [2004] UKPC 34; [2005] 1 AC 472. In this appeal the Board is asked to review the decision which it reached in Matthew . (iii) The jurisprudence of the Board on the mandatory death penalty In Reyes the Board addressed the mandatory death penalty for murder by sho…
Edwards v. The Queen (Jamaica)
[2006] UKPC 23
Citation 4
…d. the imposition of the mandatory death sentence. In the light of the Board's decision in Watson v The Queen [2004] UKPC 34; [2005] 1 AC 472 it was not necessary for counsel to argue or the Board to consider this ground.…
Gordon v. The Queen (Jamaica)
[2005] UKPC 48
Citation 5
…Section 3 provided for a mandatory death sentence for capital murder, but following the decision of the Board in Watson v The Queen [2004] UKPC 34, [2005] 1 AC 472 the Jamaican legislature passed the Offences against the Person (Amendment) Act 2005 ("the 2005 Act"), whereby the death sentence is no longer mandato…
Lendore & Ors v The Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago (Trinidad and Tobago)
[2017] UKPC 25
Citation 6
…Matthew v State of Trinidad and Tobago [2004] UKPC 33; [2005] 1 AC 433, paras 36-39 and Watson v The Queen (Attorney General for Jamaica intervening) [2004] UKPC 34; [2005] AC 472, para 30.…
Matthew v The State (Trinidad and Tobago)
[2004] UKPC 33
Citation 7
…cutions v Nasralla [1967] 2 AC 238: we have considered that authority in our opinion in Lambert Watson v The Queen (The Attorney-General intervening) [2004] UKPC 34, paragraphs 59-61, and we would refer to, without repeating, what we have there said.…