(Trinidad and Tobago) If the reason for delay in executing a prisoner was the slowness of bodies with whom appeals had been undertaken, that delay itself was not to be considered a good reason for preventing the execution. A delay period above 18m would be disregarded. The phrase ‘due process of law’ is a compendious expression in which the word ‘law’ does not refer to any particular law and is not a synonym for common law or statute. Rather it invokes the concept of the rule of law itself and the universally accepted standards of justice observed by civilised nations which observe the rule of law.’
Lord Millett
Times 23-Mar-1999, [1999] UKPC 13, (Appeal No 60 of 1998), [1999] 3 WLR 249, [2000] 2 AC 1
Bailii, PC, PC, PC
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Higgs and Mitchell v The Minister of National Security and others PC 14-Dec-1999
(Bahamas) The applicants appealed against sentences of death, saying that the executions would be unlawful while there was a pending appeal to the OAS.
Held: The appeals failed. The Bahamas was a member of the Organisation of American States, . .
Cited – Haroon Khan v The State PC 20-Nov-2003
PC (Trinidad and Tobago) The appellant had been convicted of felony murder. He was one of four engaged in a robbery, where the victim received fatal injuries.
Held: The felony murder rule had been . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Human Rights, Criminal Sentencing
Updated: 23 December 2021; Ref: scu.174593
