Terrence Thornhill v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago

JurisdictionTrinidad & Tobago
Date1974
Year1974
CourtHigh Court (Trinidad and Tobago)

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    • Caribbean Court of Justice
    • 8 November 2006
    ...right which cannot lawfully be withdrawn by executive action alone (Supra at p 422–423; also Thornhill v. Attorney General (1974) 27 W.I.R. 281).” 45 In my view legitimate expectations do not comprise a homogeneous class of extra-legal private interests. And, given that treaties comprehend ......
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    • Caribbean Community
    • Caribbean Court of Justice (Appellate Jurisdiction)
    • 8 November 2006
    ...and Production Co & Republic of Ecuador [2005] EWCA Civ 1116 at p 10 66 Supra at p 422–423; also Thornhill v Attorney General (1974) 27 WIR 281 67 (2005) EWCA Civ 1116 at [43] and [55] 68 Supra at p 17 69 Baker v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration [1999] 2 SCr 817 70 (1998) ......
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  • Fi We Law: The Emergence of Caribbean Jurisprudence and the Doctrine of Precedent
    • Jamaica
    • Transitions in Caribbean Law Lawmaking in the Caribbean
    • 21 November 2013
    ...It did not, like the formalism of Wooding CJ, require in the irst instance and the last, a consistency with prior cases or abstract 63. (1974) 27 WIR 281 (HC T&T), affd (1976) 31 WIR 498 (PC T&T). 64. (1966) 10 WIR 299 (PC Ja). 65. Thornhill (n 63) 284. Transitions in Caribbean Law concepts......
  • Police Powers in the West Indies: Some Constitutional Aspects
    • Barbados
    • Caribbean Law Review No. 1-2, December 1991
    • 1 December 1991
    ...became in turn, Chief Justice of Zimbabwe and Chief Justice of The Bahamas, and has been elevated to the Judicial Committee itself. 38 (1974) 27 W.I.R. 281 at 285. 39 Practice Note [1964] 1 All E.R. 237. 40 [1981] A.C. 61 at 71. Page 11 between the terms of those provisions should no longer......