Zaman Ali v DPP
| Jurisdiction | Guyana |
| Year | 1991 |
| Date | 1991 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Guyana) |
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3 cases
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Chung and Campbell v A.I.C. Battery and Automotive Services Company Ltd ((in Receivership))
...be guided, were echoed in our courts in Re Williams and Salisbury (1978) 26 W.I.R. 133, Evelyn v. Chichester (1970) 15 W.I.R. 410 at 50, Zaman Ali v. DPP (1991) 45 W.I.R. 196 at 205 and were restated recently in Thomas v. Citizens Bank Civil Appeal No. 51&53 of 2003 (unreported) and Re Appl......
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Dataram v Minister of Home Affairs, Commissioner of Police, Magistrate Octive-hamilton and Director of Prisons
...made in a criminal cause or matter;” 5 In support of their submission they relied on ZAMAN ALI v. DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS (1991) 45 W.I.R. 196, a decision of this Court, constituted as it then was by, inter alias, two of the very Judges who gave the ruling in KING v. AG(Supra). In e......
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Attorney General of St. Christopher and Nevis DPP The Superintendent of Prisons Appellants v David Lawrence Respondent [ECSC]
... ... Browne must be sustained. The result of this appeal must, therefore, be that the jurisdictional point is valid. I would accordingly dismiss this appeal for want of jurisdiction. However, before leaving this matter, like the judges of the Court of Appeal of Guyana in Zaman Alli v. Director of Public Prosecutions (1991) 46 WIR 197 , I am constrained to express my grave disquiet at the absence of a right of appeal from decisions of the High Court which fall under section 31(3(a) of the Supreme Court Act. Because of the present state of the law, however grave and ... ...