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23 hours ago · KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 7, 2024 - Former prime minister P.J. Patterson said the framers of Jamaica’s constitution had no intention of having the British Privy Council remain as Jamaica’s highest court of appeal, hence it was never deeply entrenched.
4 days ago · British rule. Planters, buccaneers, and slaves; Exports and internal strife; The crown colony; Self-government; The independent country
1 day ago · The British Constitution in the Colonial Era was important to American History because it established a framework of parliamentary sovereignty and the rule of law. These principles were solidified by the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the passage of the English Bill of Rights. The Constitution ensured the Crown was subject to the will of the ...
4 days ago · During the launch of former Attorney General A.J. Nicholson’s book, titled The Roadblock: Jamaica’s Resistance to the Caribbean Court of Justice, at the Faculty of Law, The University of the West Indies, last Wednesday, he said the Privy Council is unsuitable to be Jamaica’s apex court, because it is a foreign body with no real experience ...
4 days ago · As Jamaica continues its push for major constitutional changes, the Jamaica Observer today starts a series of articles by attorney-at-law and constitutional expert Dr Lloyd Barnett on the major ...
1 day ago · Introduction. Boston lawyer James Otis (1725–1783) made a name for himself as a leading critic of British imperial policy. In 1761, he had opposed as unjust and unconstitutional British officials’ searches and seizures of colonists’ property by declaring that “a man’s house is his castle.”
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3 days ago · But according to Robinson, if Golding wants to run Jamaica, he must renounce his British citizenship without delay. The public affairs commentator says real constitutional reform would erase what he calls a nonsensical distinction between commonwealth and non-commonwealth dual citizenship.
