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All criminal cases (both summary and indictable) commence in the Magistrates' Court. Summary cases are heard in full by the Magistrates' Court. Indictable cases proceed to the High Court after a preliminary inquiry is conducted to determine that there is a prima facie case to answer. Once judgement is passed, a case may be appealed by either ...
The Supreme Court of Barbados. The Supreme Court is located in a five-storey reinforced concrete structure of 183,000 square feet (17,000 m 2) which includes both civil and criminal courts, together with office accommodation and facilities for judges, juries, attorneys, prisoners, and the public, as well as the Registry and Records offices. [5]
Boyce v R is a 2004 Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) case which upheld the law that sets out a mandatory sentence of death for murder in Barbados.. The JCPC held in some cases, the law that makes capital punishment mandatory for murder will violate the prohibition on "inhuman or degrading punishment" in the Constitution of Barbados.
Barbados Rediffusion Services Limited v Mirchandani and others [2005] CCJ 1 (AJ): In the very first case to reach the CCJ, the Court granted special leave to appeal to it by the applicant based on the transitional provisions contained in the Caribbean Court of Justice Act, 2003 and the Constitution (Amendment) Act, 2003, passed by the Barbados ...
The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) is a superior court of record for the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), [1] including six independent states: Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and three British Overseas Territories (Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, and Montserrat).
The chief justice of Barbados is the head of the Supreme Court of Barbados as defined by the constitution. [1]The constitution of Barbados states: 80.1 There shall be for Barbados a Supreme Court of Judicature, consisting of a High Court and a Court of Appeal, with such jurisdiction, powers and authority as may be conferred upon those Courts respectively by this Constitution or any other law.
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Frederick Atkins (died 2005) was a convicted murderer who received a mandatory death sentence from a court in Barbados. He died in prison while the Inter-American Court of Human Rights was considering his appeal. Atkins was a bus driver who was convicted in 1999 for the murder of 20-year-old Sharmaine Hurley in the previous October. [1]