Sykes v Ministry of National Security and Justice and Attorney General
| Jurisdiction | Jamaica |
| Year | 1993 |
| Date | 1993 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Jamaica) |
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4 cases
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Legal Officers Staff Association and Others v Attorney General of Jamaica and Minister of Finance and Public Service
...of judicial review to enforce private contractual rights. The most prominent of these was the case of Sykes v Ministry of National Security and Justice and The Attorney General (1993) 30 JLR 76 in which the Court of Appeal refused to entertain claims for salary withheld by a public authori......
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Legal Officers' Staff Association v The Attorney General
...Disputes Act. 134 The defendants cited the cases of Sykes v the Ministry of National Security & Justice and the Attorney General (1993) 30 JLR 76 and Swann v Attorney General of the Turks & Caicos Islands [2009] UKPC 22 as authorities that have confirmed the principle that the court will no......
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Minister of National Security and Attorney General v Herbert Hamilton
...be used sparingly; and only in the clearest cases’ 3; secondly, applying the decisions of the Court of Appeal in Sykes v Minister of National Security and Justice and others4 ( Sykes ) and of the Privy Council in Swann v Attorney General of the Turks & Caicos Islands5 ( Swann ), rather than......
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Herbert A Hamilton v Minister of National Security and Another
...some guidance in the matter; and in which some other similar cases were reviewed. 19 The local case is that of Sykes v The Minister of National Security and Justice and others (1993) 30 J.L.R 76, a decision of the Jamaican Court of Appeal. In that case, the appellant along with other legal ......