Cedeno v Logan

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Type: Case

Citation: [2001] 1 WLR 86

Summary: Magistrate convicted appellant — Appellant gave notice of appeal but magistrate not fulfilling statutory obligation to state reasons — Court of Appeal dismissed appeal against conviction and unlawfully increased sentence — In circumstances absence of magistrate’s reasons not serious departure from due process requiring Court of Appeal to allow appeal against conviction on that basis and properly dismissed — Judicial Committee of Privy Council’s practice not to award costs against prosecution in criminal cases did not preclude it from doing so in wholly exceptional circumstances and respondent to pay appellant’s costs of appeal to Judicial Committee

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Court: PC

Jurisdiction: Trinidad and Tobago

Date 2000