Jamaica- prosecution must provide copies of statements to defence. The provisions of section 20(1) and (6) of the Jamaican Constitution ‘do no more than codify in writing the requirements of the common law which ensure that an accused person receives a fair trial’.
Judges:
Lord Woolf
Citations:
Gazette 30-Jun-1993, [1993] 1 WLR 862
Jurisdiction:
Commonwealth
Cited by:
Cited – Director of Public Prosecutions and others v Tokai and others PC 12-Jun-1996
(Trinidad and Tobago) The appellant had been charged in 1981 with offences alleged to have been committed shortly before. The proceedings continued until his appeal for one was dismissed in 1988. The wounding charges were proceeded with only in . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Criminal Practice, Commonwealth, Constitutional
Updated: 06 August 2022; Ref: scu.90170
