Collymore and Abraham v The Attorney‑General
| Jurisdiction | Trinidad & Tobago |
| Date | 1967 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago) |
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68 cases
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Dawn Satterswaite v The Assets Recovery Agency
...have to construe the constitutional provision in issue. She referred to Phillips JA in Collymore and Abraham v The Attorney General (1967) 12 WIR 5 for these propositions, as section 2 of the Jamaican Constitution is similar to the said section 2 in the T&T 61 Counsel also examined section......
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Hilroy Humphreys Claimant v Attorney General of Antigua and Barbuda Defendant. [ECSC]
...order and food government of Antigua and Barbuda." [102] In the celebrated case of COLLYMORE v ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO [1967] 12 WIR 5, 35 in delivering his decision in the Court of Appeal gave what must be regarded as one of the celebrated dicta in Caribbean public law. He ......
- Trinidad Island-Wide Cane Farmers' Association Inc. and Attorney General v Prakash Seereeram
- Sumayyah Mohammed v Moraine and Another
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6 books & journal articles
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Our Inherent Constitution
...Westminster modelled constitutions had 79. Hinds (n 3). 80. 5 US (1 Cranch) 137 (1803) (SC US). 81. See Carnegie (n 5), Collymore v AG (1967) 12 WIR 5 (CA T&T) 9 (Wooding CJ). 82. S.A. de Smith, ‘Westminster’s Export Models: the Legal Framework of Responsible Government’ (1961–63) 1 J Commo......
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Locus standi in commonwealth environmental law: caribbean perspectives
...on this point (1973) 20 W.I.R. 573, Peterkin Ag. J.A. dissenting; L.J- Williams Ltd. v. Smith (1980) 6 C.L.B. 810. 5 Colfymore v. A.G. (1967) 12 W.I.R. 5, a decision of the T&T Ct of Appeal which was reversed by the Privy Council [1970] A.C. 538. See also R. v. Mbanefo, Ex. p. Pierre (1966)......
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State proceedings in the Commonwealth Caribbean
...Constitutions will also be supreme even if it does not contain a supreme law clause; see Collymore v. A. G. of Trinidad and Tobago (1967) 12 W.I.R. 5. 139 See A.K. Fiadjoe, "An Overview of the Public Law Revolution in the Commonwealth Caribbean" (1992)21 Anglo-Am. L. Rev. 310. 140 Unreporte......
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Fi We Law: The Emergence of Caribbean Jurisprudence and the Doctrine of Precedent
...Regulations and Syllabuses for Academic Year 1971–72’ (UWI Cave Hill, Barbados 1971). 48. Wooding Report (n 20) 6–7. 49. Ibid 11. 50. (1967) 12 WIR 5 (CA T&T), affd (1969) 15 WIR 229 (PC T&T). Transitions in Caribbean Law Constitution, not by reference to the history of that movement in the......
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