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Watson v R (Jamaica)

Case [2004] UKPC 34

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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
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…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
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…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
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…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.…

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Boyce & Anor v R (Barbados) [2004] UKPC 32
Citation 1

…sons for holding this opinion very largely appear from our dissenting opinions in Matthew v The State [2004] UKPC 33 and Boyce and Joseph v The Queen [2004] UKPC 32, and may therefore be stated more briefly than would otherwise be appropriate in an appeal of such obvious importance.…
Fox v. R (Saint Christopher and Nevis) [2002] UKPC 13
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…h were heard at the same time by the same members of the Judicial Committee: R v Hughes [2002] UKPC 12; [2002] 2 AC 259 and Fox v The Queen [2002] UKPC 13; [2002] 2 AC 284, in which the judgments of the Board were delivered by Lord Rodger of Earlsferry. The appellant in R v Hughes had been convicted in the High C…
Hughes, R v (Saint Lucia) [2002] UKPC 12
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…eyes v The Queen was applied in two other cases which were heard at the same time by the same members of the Judicial Committee: R v Hughes [2002] UKPC 12; [2002] 2 AC 259 and Fox v The Queen [2002] UKPC 13; [2002] 2 AC 284, in which the judgments of the Board were delivered by Lord Rodger of Earlsferry. The appe…
Matthew v The State (Trinidad and Tobago) [2004] UKPC 33
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…ce immediately before the appointed day. Our reasons for holding this opinion very largely appear from our dissenting opinions in Matthew v The State [2004] UKPC 33 and Boyce and Joseph v The Queen [2004] UKPC 32, and may therefore be stated more briefly than would otherwise be appropriate in an appeal of such ob…
Reyes v. R (Belize) [2002] UKPC 11
Citation 5

…first issue: inhuman punishment The background to a discussion of this issue is provided by the decision of the Board in Reyes v The Queen [2002] UKPC 11; [2002] 2 AC 235. The appellant in that case had been convicted on two counts of murder by shooting. He appealed against the death sentence which was imposed o…

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