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Fundamental Rights II

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  1. 1.Thornhill v Attorney-General of Trinidad and Tobago (1980) — held?

    Denying a detained person access to a lawyer breached the constitutional right to retain and instruct counsel without delay.

    [1981] AC 61 (PC)

  2. 2.Reyes v The Queen (2002) — held?

    The mandatory death penalty for murder by shooting in Belize was inhuman or degrading punishment.

    [2002] UKPC 11; [2002] 2 AC 235

  3. 3.Watson v The Queen (2004) — held?

    The mandatory death penalty for murder in Jamaica was unconstitutional.

    [2004] UKPC 34

  4. 4.Boyce v The Queen (2004) — held?

    A majority of the Privy Council held that the savings clause in Barbados's Constitution preserved the mandatory death penalty.

    [2004] UKPC 32

  5. 5.Caleb Orozco v Attorney-General of Belize (2016) — held?

    The Supreme Court of Belize held that s 53 of the Criminal Code, as applied to consensual sex between adult men, was unconstitutional.

    Supreme Court of Belize, 10 August 2016

  6. 6.McEwan v Attorney-General of Guyana (2018) — held?

    The CCJ struck down Guyana's law against cross-dressing "for an improper purpose" as unconstitutionally vague and discriminatory.

    [2018] CCJ 30 (AJ)