Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2007] All ER (D) 171 (Mar)
Neutral Citation: [2007] UKPC 15
Court: Privy Council
Judge:

Lord Bingham of Cornhill, Lord Scott of Foscote, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Lord Carswell and Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood

Judgment Dates: 7 March 2007

Catchwords

Trinidad and Tobago - Criminal law - Trial - Trial judge convicting defendants of murder of deceased - Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago) upholding defendants' convictions - Whether Court of Appeal erring in its approach to relevant legal principles.

The Case

Trinidad and Tobago Criminal law. The Privy Council allowed the defendants' appeals and quashed their convictions in circumstances where the decisions taken by the Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago) to uphold their convictions in the light of the relevant legal principles and available evidence had rendered those convictions unsafe.

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