Jagan and Others v Gajraj

JurisdictionGuyana
Year1963
Date1963
CourtSupreme Court (British Guiana)
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3 cases
  • Musa v The Attorney General et Al
    • Belize
    • Supreme Court (Belize)
    • 22 January 1998
    ...the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to pass judgment in the matter of the conduct of proceedings in the House of Representatives — Jagan v. Gajraj [1963] 5 W.I.R. 353 considered — Court found that it did have jurisdiction — Court held that the Supreme Court is not competent to inquire into c......
  • James v Speaker of the House of Assembly of Dominica et Al
    • Dominica
    • High Court (Dominica)
    • 22 October 2004
    ...to remove for self-security verses the right to inflict punishment states the upper and lower limits of the issue. 23 Further, in Jagan and Others v. Gajraj (1963) 5 W.I.R. 333 the court held that while the legislative assembly without statutory authority had no power to punish a member for......
  • Hughes v Rogers
    • Anguilla
    • High Court (Saint Christopher, Nevis And Anguilla)
    • 12 January 2000
    ...exercise of their legislative functions, they are justified in acting by the principle of the common law”. 42 In the Guyanese case of Jagan v. Gajraj (1963) 5 W.I.R. 333, Chief Justice Luckhoo noted, at page 341, that: “Nothing said in the judgments delivered in….. Bradlaugh v. Gossett prov......

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