Grant v DPP

JurisdictionJamaica
Date1979
CourtSupreme Court (Jamaica)
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  • Hon Gordon Stewart OJ v Senator Noel Sloley Sr, Noel Sloley Jr, Gordon Brown, Deborah Lee Shung and Jamaica Tours Ltd
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 29 July 2011
    ... ... 14 [11] Part 17 deals with interim remedies and rule 17.1(1) empowers the court to grant a number of such remedies, including ‘(h) an order (referred to as a “search order”) requiring a party to admit another party to premises for the purpose of preserving evidence etc.’. Rule 17.2(1) provides that such an order may be made at any time, including ‘…before a claim has been ... ...
  • Tapper el al v Director of Public Prosecutions el al
    • Jamaica
    • Supreme Court (Jamaica)
    • 8 February 1999
    ...[1990] L.R.C. (Const.) H42 also reported at (1991) 40 W.I.R 15; Gladys Tappin v. Francis Lucas (1973) 20 W.I.R. 228 at 235 H and I; Grant and Others v. D.P.P. (1980) 30 W.I.R. 246; R. v. Scott (1991) L.R.C. (Crim.) 130. 98 Mr. Wildman also submitted that the decision of the D.P.P. to go by ......
  • Albert Diah v R
    • Jamaica
    • Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
    • 16 March 2018
    ...It was unnecessary to have any depositions at all.” 136 The right of initiating a prosecution was also recognised by this court in Grant v DPP (1980) 30 WIR 246. Although speaking in the context of an offence triable on indictment, Carberry JA, in his judgment on behalf of this court under......
  • Auto-Guadeloupe Investissement S.A.S v Alvarez et Al
    • Barbados
    • High Court (Barbados)
    • 3 July 2013
    ...Patterson sought to distinguish Maharaj on the basis of the decision in Grant and Others v. Director of Public Prosecutions and Others (1979) 29 W.I.R. 235. There, the views expressed by Lord Diplock in Maharaj were the subject of cautionary remarks by Smith, C.J. who, in dealing with a mot......
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