Robley v Placide

JurisdictionTrinidad & Tobago
Date1966
CourtCourt of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago)
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6 cases
  • Pellington (Errington) v Sgt. Basil Maitland and Others
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 30 Marzo 2007
    ...be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife". 24Defendants' counsel also cited the Trinidad and Tobago Court of Appeal decision in Robley v Placide [1966] 11 W.I.R. 58 in which it was held that "no legal duty to retreat could arise in circumstances where a police officer acted in exec......
  • Chin (Leroy) v Attorney General of Jamaica
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 25 Octubre 2005
  • Machel Nugent v SGT. Paul Gammon
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 4 Noviembre 2016
    ...who were prima facis committing in his view the offence of being armed with an offensive weapon”. She submitted that the case of Robley v.. Placide (1966) 11 WIR 58, authority for the stated principle, can be distinguished from te case at bar as the claimant was not armed and did not pose a......
  • The Attorney General v Green
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 12 Junio 1980
    ...as self-defense or trying to effect a lawful arrest, then it seems, with respect, that the decision of the Trinidad Court of Appeal in Robley v. Placide, (1966) 11 W.I.R. p. 58 cannot apply, and cannot assist the police in these circumstances. It would have been otherwise, had the original......
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