Briggs v. Baptiste and Others

Abstract

Human rights — Right to life — Fair trial — Detention pending trial — Sentence of death — Whether repeated reading of sentence to defendant unlawful — Whether execution of defendant when international tribunal has ordered that execution be stayed unlawful

Human rights — International machinery for protection of human rights — American Convention on Human Rights, 1969 — Inter-American Court of Human Rights — Jurisdiction — Effect of provisional orders — When Court becomes functus officio — Inter-American Commission on Human Rights — Whether decisions binding

International tribunals — Provisional measures — Whether binding — Whether enforceable in municipal law — Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Relationship of international law and municipal law — Treaties — American Convention on Human Rights, 1969 — Convention not incorporated into the law of Trinidad and Tobago — Extent to which courts of Trinidad and Tobago entitled or required to give effect to Convention — Effect in municipal law of decision of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights — The law of Trinidad and Tobago