Alexander v Williams

JurisdictionTrinidad & Tobago
Date1984
Year1984
CourtCourt of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago)
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22 cases
  • 1) Shane Graham 2) Ray JNO Baptiste v The Police
    • Dominica
    • Court of Appeal (Dominica)
    • 13 September 2010
    ...and sentences be quashed and new trials ordered. Forbes v Chandrabhan Maharaj (1998) 52 WIR 487 followed; Alexander v Williams (1984) 34 WIR 340 applied. 3. In respect of the appellant Daniel, there was a failure of due process by the Magistrate's failure to (1) inquire as to whether or no......
  • Jerome Dixon v R
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 29 July 2022
    ...court ought to quash the conviction in the interests of justice. The cases included Forbes v Chandrabhan Maharaj (1998) 52 WIR 487, Alexander v Williams (1984) 34 WIR 340 and Griffith v Niewenkirk GY 2004 CA 212 He also brought some authorities to the court's attention which came to a dif......
  • Garibdass et Al v Sookhan et Al
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • High Court (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • 11 March 1997
    ...involves that it should be invested with a power to maintain its authority and to prevent its process being obstructed and abused (see Alexander v Williams (1984) 34 W.I.R. 340 CA at 345c-347b). 4 It has been said that the overriding features of the inherent jurisdiction of the court are, t......
  • Fuller (Winston) v The State
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • Invalid date
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1 books & journal articles
  • Appeals
    • Jamaica
    • Criminal practice and procedure in the Magistrates' Courts in the Commonwealth Caribbean
    • 18 June 2010
    ...the Magistrate was not obliged by statute to give reasons for his decision, the Court of Appeal in the case of Alexander v Williams (1984) 34 WIR 340 stated per Bernard, J.A. It is quite true that a Magistrate is a creature of statute and that there is not statutory enjoinder in the Act whi......

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