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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 Trinidad and Tobago. (This principle is consistent with the 2002 JCPC cases of Hughes, Fox, and Reyes.) However, because (1) the Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago ...
Trinidad and Tobago achieved full independence via the Trinidad and Tobago Independence Act 1962 on 31 August 1962 within the Commonwealth with Queen Elizabeth II as its titular head of state. On 1 August 1976, the country became a republic, and the last Governor-General, Sir Ellis Clarke, became the first President. [a]
At common law before the enactment of the Trade Union Act 1871, the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875, and the amendment to section 3 thereof effected by section 1 of the Trade Disputes Act 1906, combinations of workmen to improve their wages and conditions were certainly in peril if in combination they withheld their labour or ...
Section 4 of the Constitution prohibits discrimination on the grounds of sex. [1] In 2014, Trinidad and Tobago ranked 49th on the Global Gender Gap Index of the World Economic Forum, with a score of 0.715, down from its 36th place in 2013. In terms of participation in the labor force, the country ranked 87th, with 59% of women participating as ...
Bridget Brereton (born 1946) is a Trinidad and Tobago-based historian, who is Emerita Professor of History at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. [1] She is the author of works including A History of Modern Trinidad; Law, Justice and Empire: The Colonial Career of John Gorrie, 1829–1892; Race Relations in Colonial Trinidad, 1870–1900 and her articles have been widely ...
The Federal Supreme Court itself was the successor [20] to the West Indian Court of Appeal (established in 1919) [21] and had jurisdiction over the same territories (Barbados, British Guiana, the Leeward Islands (including the British Virgin Islands), Trinidad & Tobago and the Windward Islands) [21] in addition to Jamaica and its dependencies ...
1870 establishments in Trinidad and Tobago (1 P) This page was last edited on 1 February 2021, at 20:23 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The Trinidad and Tobago Independence Act 1962 (10 & 11 Eliz. 2. c. 54) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that granted independence to Trinidad and Tobago with effect from 31 August 1962. As a result of the Act, Trinidad and Tobago became an independent country in the West Indies achieving independence from the United Kingdom.