Baker v The Queen

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Type: Case

Citation: [1975] AC 774

Summary: Since statutory provision provided prospectively that different penalties for same offence might be imposed on different categories of offender the provision not unconstitutional as being a law passed after offence committed which increased retrospectively penalty to be imposed therefor, but even if it contravened that constitutional right it was saved from invalidity by savings clause in Constitution - Observations on binding precedent

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Court: PC

Jurisdiction: Jamaica

Date 1975