San José Farmers' Co-operative Society Ltd v Attorney General

JurisdictionBelize
Year1991
Date1991
CourtCourt of Appeal (Belize)

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28 cases
  • Alcedo Tyson v The Queen
    • British Virgin Islands
    • Court of Appeal (British Virgin Islands)
    • 20 November 2017
    ...12. 74 See paragraph 79 of that judgment. 75 See paragraph 93 of that judgment. 76 San Jose Farmers' Cooperative v The Attorney General (1991) 43 WIR 63; Attorney General of St. Christopher, Nevis and Anguilla v Reynolds (1979) 43 WIR 77 Study for the LIBE Committee, Directorate – Gener......
  • Matthew v Trinidad and Tobago
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 7 July 2004
    ...than other Acts." The Board then read the relevant term of the Constitution into the existing law. 51 In San José Farmers' Co-operative Society Ltd v Attorney-General (1991) 43 WIR 63 the Court of Appeal of Belize exercised its modifying power to make ambitious amendments needed to bring a......
  • Director of Public Prosecutions v Mollison (No. 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Privy Council
    • 22 January 2003
    ...The clause of the Constitution of Belize which the Court of Appeal of Belize was called upon to consider in San José Farmers' Co-operative Society Ltd v Attorney-General (1991) 43 WIR 63 was more elaborate than section 4(1) in referring to "qualifications, and exceptions" as well as "modif......
  • Alcedo Tyson v The Queen
    • British Virgin Islands
    • Court of Appeal (British Virgin Islands)
    • 20 November 2017
    ...12. 74 See paragraph 79 of that judgment. 75 See paragraph 93 of that judgment. 76 San Jose Farmers' Cooperative v The Attorney General (1991) 43 WIR 63; Attorney General of St. Christopher, Nevis and Anguilla v Reynolds (1979) 43 WIR 77 Study for the LIBE Committee, Directorate – General......
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2 books & journal articles
  • The evolution of constitutional protection of fundamental rights in Guyana
    • Barbados
    • Caribbean Law Review No. 11-1, June 2001
    • 1 June 2001
    ...328, per Lord Wilberforce. 37 Ibid. 329, See also AG v Mohamed Ali (l987) W.I.R. 176, 188, San Jose Farmers Co-op Soc. Ltd. v. AG (1991) 43 W.I.R. 63, 88, Whitfield v AG (1989) 44 W.I.R. 19, Huntley v AG ofJamaica (1994) 46 W.I.R. 218, 227, Fuller v. AG. (1998) 56 W.I.R. 337, 395-396. The a......
  • Constitutionalism in Belize: Lessons for the Commonwealth Caribbean?
    • Jamaica
    • Transitions in Caribbean Law The habits of constitutionalism
    • 21 November 2013
    ...the UWI Faculty of Law Faculty Workshop Series, Barbados (18 October 2007). 25. (2002) UKPC 11, [2002] 60 WIR 42 (Bze). 26. Ibid 6. 27. (1991) 43 WIR 63 (CA Bze). Transitions in Caribbean Law validity of existing laws, notwithstanding their inconsistency with fundamental rights and freedoms......