Lassalle v Attorney General

JurisdictionTrinidad & Tobago
Date1971
Year1971
CourtCourt of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago)
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    ...v Guyana [2009] CCJ 5 (OJ), (2009) 74 WIR 302 [27]. 38. Merson v Cartwright [2005] UKPC 38, (2005) 67 WIR 17 (Bah). 39. Lassalle v AG (1971) 18 WIR 379 (CA T&T) 383 (Phillips JA). 40. Ibid . 41. Ibid 394. 42. Northern Construction v AG (31 July 2002) TT 2002 HC 104 (T&T). 253 Transitions in......
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    ...of the rule of law itself and the universally accepted30See Okpaluba and Osode (n 25) para 17.3.31[1996] AC 842 (PC).32(N 2) 854.33(1971) 18 WIR 379 (T&T CA).34[2000] 2 AC 1 Constitutional damages, procedural due process and the Maharaj legacy 263standards of justice observed by civilised n......
  • Transitions in Caribbean Law: An Introduction
    • Jamaica
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    ...third English-speaking Caribbean country to gain independence in 1966; Belize in 1981 was one of the last. Godfrey 81. Lassalle v AG (1971) 18 WIR 379 (CA T&T) 404. See T. Robinson, Chapter 11. 82. C. Parkinson, Bills of Rights and Decolonization: The Emergence of Domestic Human Rights Inst......
  • Extra-Constitutional Notions in Australian Constitutional Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Federal Law Review No. 16-3, September 1986
    • 1 September 1986
    ...possessing inalienableandimprescriptible rights, antecedent andsuperiof,to all positive/aw."(Art41.1.1). Italics added. -74Lassalle vA-G(1971)18WIR379, 395 per Phillips J A (T &TCA):"ThefundamentalrightsandfreedomsguaranteedbytheConstitutiondonot owe their existence to it. Theyartpreviously......
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