(Bahamas) The Board considered: ‘(a) the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal (b) the constitutional history in the Bahamas as it differs from that of other Caribbean states and (c) the constitutionality of the executive act of carrying out a mandatory death sentence’.
Judges:
Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead,Lord Hope of Craighead, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood
Citations:
[2006] 1 WLR 1623, [2006] UKPC 10
Links:
Jurisdiction:
Commonwealth
Cited by:
Cited – Simmons and Another v Regina PC 3-Apr-2006
(Bahamas) The appellants challenged admission of confession statements at their trial. A statement was not to be admitted without proof hat it had not been obtained by oppression.
Held: The defendant would have failed in a submission of no . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Constitutional, Criminal Sentencing
Updated: 05 July 2022; Ref: scu.238919
