The Constitution and the Rule of Law: Some Recent Developments in Jamaica

Date: 1 Mar 2009
Author: Stephen Vasciannie and Michelle Brown
Publication: Commonwealth Law Bulletin Vol. 35, No. 1 (2009)

This article provides an analysis of some recent developments relating to Constitutional law in Jamaica, including the legal issues arising from tied elections and the dual nationality of parliamentarians. It also discusses a case relating to the failure to incorporate the United Nations Convention on Transnational Organized Crime (the Palermo Convention). In this case, though the Palermo Convention contemplates investigations by agents of one country on the territory of another for certain crimes, one state party found it was unable to carry out such investigations on the territory of another. Although the latter country, a CARICOM member state, was also a party to the Convention, it had not enacted the required implementing legislation

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