The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[1996] AC 890
[PRIVY COUNCIL]
SIR WILLIAM RANDOLPH DOUGLAS and Others Appellants and SIR LYNDEN OSCAR PINDLING Respondent
[appeal from the court of appeal of the commonwealth of the bahamas]
1996 March 18,
19,
20,
21;
May 13
May 13
Lord Keith of Kinkel, Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle, Lord Browne-Wilkinson, Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead and Sir John May
Bahamas, The
— Evidence
— Bankers' books
— Appointment of commission of inquiry
— Commission issuing summonses to produce banking records
— Test to be applied by commission
— Basis for exercise of court's supervisory jurisdiction
— Whether commission's decision to issue summonses justified
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Banks and Trust Companies Regulation Act 1965 (No. 64 of 1965), s. 10(1) (as substituted by Banks and Trust Companies Regulation (Amendment) Act 1980 (No. 3of 1980), s. 2)
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Bankers' Books Evidence Act (Statute Law of The Bahamas, 1987 rev., c. 53), ss. 3, 4, 5, 6
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Commissions of Inquiry Act (Statute Law of The Bahamas, 1987 rev., c. 172), s. 10(1)
Bahamas, The
— Practice
— Appeal to Privy Council
— Plaintiff's claim for constitutional and other relief dismissed
— Court of Appeal allowing plaintiff's appeal on non-constitutional grounds
— Whether defendants entitled to appeal as of right to Privy Council
— Whether single judge of Court of Appeal having jurisdiction to grant leave to appeal
—
Bahama Islands (Procedure in Appeals to Privy Council) Order 1964 (S.I. 1964 No. 2042), s.5
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Bahamas Independence Order 1973 (S.I. 1973 No. 1080), Sch., art. 104
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Court of Appeal Act (Statutue Law of The Bahamas, 1987 rev., c. 40), s. 19(1)