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Derek O’Brien and Se-shauna Wheatle: The Commonwealth Caribbean and the Uses...
The practice of judges engaging in a transnational judicial conversation about constitutional rights, by referring to the judgments of international human rights courts and other constitutional courts...
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Derek O’Brien: The Basic Structure Doctrine and the Courts of the...
The basic structure doctrine, as first expounded by the Indian Supreme Court in the early 1970s in Kesavanand Bharati v Kerala (A.I.R. 1973 SC 1461), asserts that the law-making powers of a legislature...
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Derek O’Brien: CARICOM: ‘a new legal order’?
The recent case of Myrie v Barbados, in which the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) held that the actions of the Barbados immigration authorities in refusing entry to a Jamaican national violated the...
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Se-shauna Wheatle: Maurice Tomlinson v Television Jamaica Ltd: Horizontal...
For more than twenty years Jamaica was engaged in the process of amending the Chapter of Fundamental Rights enshrined in the Constitution of Jamaica 1962. The culmination of that project was the...
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Derek O’Brien – Comment On The Caribbean: Commonwealth Caribbean Elections.
When comparing the relative political stability of Britain’s former colonies in the Commonwealth Caribbean with the lack thereof in former British colonies in Africa and Asia and the former colonies of...
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