Tag: Privy Council
UK Privy Council restores gun conviction
(CNS): A West Bay man will go back to serving a ten-year jail term for possession of an unlicensed gun this week after the Privy Council in London overturned a Cayman Islands Court of Appeal decision Wednesday and reinstated the conviction by the original trial judge. Robert Aaron Crawford (22) was found guilty of having […]
Jamaica takes step towards rejecting Privy Council
(CNS): Three pieces of legislation that may lead to the neighboring island of Jamaica ending its use of the UK’s Privy Council and creating a regional final court of appeal have been passed by the House of Representatives. The Jamaican government plans to establish the Caribbean Court of Justice as its last legal port of call […]
