Wills v Voisin
| Jurisdiction | Trinidad & Tobago |
| Date | 1963 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago) |
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78 cases
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Denese Keane-Madden v Attorney General of Jamaica and Corporal T Webster-Lawrence
...Claimant's favour and which results in damage to the Claimant's reputation, person or property. The applicable principles were set out in Wills v Voisin [1963] 6 WIR 50. At common law a Claimant seeking damages for malicious prosecution would have to prove the following: i. That the law was......
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Dexter Smith v 1) Attorney General 2) Commissioner of Police 3) Corporal Portia Nicholas 4) Sergeant Samuel Smart
...the proceedings; and (d) That the prosecutor was activated by malice in instituting the proceedings-per Wooding CJ inWills v Voisin [1963] 6 WIR 50. 64 In this case it has been clearly established that the first two elements exist; the Claimant was arrested and charged with three drug offen......
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Nicole-Ann Fullerton vAttorney General
...an award under this heading can properly be considered against the background of the guidance given as to requirements of this tort in Wills v. Voisin [1963] 6 W.I.R. 50. 93 Wooding C.J. listed the essentials which must be proved successfully by a claimant in order to establish a case of m......
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Morgan, Kenneth v Attorney General of Jamaica
...he was arrested he said that "he was a senior jail-bud". He does not know what those words mean. 11 Malicious Prosecution 12 The case of Wills v Voisin (1963) 6 W.I.R. 50 at page 57, letter A, Wooding C.J. listed the essential which must be proved by the plaintiff in order to establish a c......
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1 books & journal articles
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Does “Prosecution” in the Law of Malicious Prosecution Extend to Malicious Civil Proceedings? A Commonwealth Update (part 1)
...v Atto rney General 2014 TT HC 227 para 46; Morgan v At torney General of Trinida d and Toba go 2015 TTHC 18 para 12; Wills v Voisi n 1963 6 WIR 50.7 For recent developme nts, vis-à-vis reasonable an d probable cause and m alice, see C Okpalu ba “Between reasonable and prob able cause and m......