Article: TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: GOVT. MOVES TO JETTISON PRIVY COUNCIL RULING

Article: Law: Last appeal to a lost empire The British Privy ...
The Independent - London;  May 25, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... The fate of nine death-row inmates from Trinidad ... acting as the Privy Council, order a stay ... existence of the Privy Council" appeal route ... in relation to death row cases. Mr O ... away from the Privy Council and given to a ...

Article: Grenadian coup plotters must be resentenced ; LEGAL OPINION ++ ...
The Independent - London;  February 21, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... been set aside and the Privy Council has ordered that they ... judicial committee of the Privy Council as the court of appeal ... inmates on the Caribbean death row it remains the last ... Lehrfreund. "The Privy Council have indicated the ...

Article: Law Report: `Death row' appeal quashed by council ...
The Independent - London;  January 4, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... which an accused would be entitled prior to conviction. The Privy Council unanimously dismissed an appeal by Albert Huntley, a convicted murderer now awaiting execution on "Death row" in Jamaica, against the decision of the Court of Appeal ...

Article: New Caribbean court asked to resume death penalties denied by ...
AP Worldstream;  June 19, 2006 ;     668 words ... ... to counter Britain's Privy Council, which remains the final ... out of the idea that the Privy Council was against the death penalty ... landmark 1993 ruling by the Privy Council, that says keeping someone on death row for more than five years ...

Article: English speaking Caribbean -- New court to replace Privy ...
M2 Presswire;  February 16, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... protect the rights of death row inmates may be threatened ... Caribbean politicians on Privy Council rulings designed to safeguard ... rights of detainees on death row. The Prime Minister ... recently accused the Privy Council of "tearing up the law ...

Article: ANALYSIS CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: Former colonies seek to overthrow ...
The Independent - London;  September 19, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... has 52 inmates on Death Row), pledged his ... hanging after a 1993 Privy Council decision had put ... The conditions on Death Row were also cited as a factor in the Privy Council decision. Now ... right of appeal of Death Row inmates in former ... committee of the ...

Article: RIGHTS-JAMAICA: PRIVY COUNCIL COMMUTES DEATH ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  September 15, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... London-based Privy Council has angered the ... sentences of six men on death row to life in prison ... were being kept on death row were inhumane and ... majority of the Privy Council. There was one ... Then in 1993, the Privy Council ruled, in the ... that five ...