The Law Reports (Appeal Cases)
[2000] 2 AC 1
[PRIVY COUNCIL]
DARRIN ROGER THOMAS
and Another
Appellants
and
CIPRIANI BAPTISTE
and Others
Respondents
[APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEAL OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO]
1998 Oct. 5,
6,
7,
8,
12,
13;
1999 Jan. 27;
March 17
1999 Jan. 27;
March 17
Lord Browne-Wilkinson, Lord Goff of Chieveley, Lord Steyn, Lord Hobhouse of Woodborough and Lord Millett
Trinidad and Tobago
— Constitution
— Human rights and fundamental freedoms
— Individual's right not to be deprived of life except by “due process of law”
— Execution of death penalty for murder
— Government ratifying international convention permitting access to international bodies
— Government issuing instructions prescribing time limits for applications to international bodies
— Whether instructions lawful
— Whether carrying out death sentences before determination of international body infringing constitutional right to due process
— Whether legitimate expectation not to be executed before petitions finally determined
— Whether delay rendering carrying out of death sentence unconstitutional
— Whether prison conditions constituting cruel and unusual treatment
— Judge in constitutional proceedings ordering death sentence to be vacated
— Whether death sentence properly restored by appellate court
—
Constitution of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Act (No. 4 of 1976), Sch., ss. 4(a), 5(2)(b), 14(1)(2)