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The Jamaican Constitution in Litigation of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Repercussions and Resonances

By Margaret DeMerieuxded.Forty-seven death row prisoners, however, have had their sentences commuted under the new law.A good example is the appeals involving problems of identification.Recent cases inc1ude Reid and Ors.v. B.; Reece and Ors.v. R. (1989) 37 W.I.R. 346.The drafters of the Jamaica Constitution used the Bill of Rights appearing in the Nigerian Indepen dence Constitution, which was an adaptation of the European Convention.The matter is averted to in the leading case of Hinds and Ors.v.The Queen (1974) 22 W.I.R. 368 at p. 389 (C.A.).