Re Lewis
| Jurisdiction | Barbados |
| Year | 1970 |
| Date | 1970 |
| Court | High Court (Barbados) |
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5 cases
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Watson-Morgan v Grant
...2 All E.R. 225, dicta of Lord Fraser of Tullybelton applied. (7) Galloway v. Galloway, [1956] A.C. 299, considered. (8) Lewis, ReUNK(1970), 15 W.I.R. 520, dicta of Douglas J. applied. (9) Minister of Home Affairs v. Fisher, [1980] A.C. 319, distinguished. (10) Osenton (Charles) & Co. v. Joh......
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Katyuska Del Carmen Tarra v Elton Leonard
...legitimate parents as there is no definition of the terms ‘mother’, ‘father’ or ‘parent’ which could expand the common law meaning. 18 In Re CT, Re JT Roxburgh J held that the Justices of the Peace had no jurisdiction to entertain an application by a putative father for custody of his illeg......
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Re C, an Infant
...215 has no application to illegitimate children. He submits that the court should not entertain the application relying on Re Lewis [1970], 15 W. I. R. 520. In that case the putative father of a male infant made an application under the Infants Act, Chapter 215 for the custody of the child......
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Lindberg v Sampson
...to have been made in favour of the applicant the Court had no jurisdiction in the circumstances to make the order for custody now sought. Re Lewis (1970) 15 WIR 520 was a case in point where it was held that the Court had no jurisdiction to make an order for the custody of an illegitimate c......
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2 books & journal articles
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Custody
...F v D [2017] JMSC Civ. 9.58. See the case of Mrs. S v Mr. S [2016] JMSC 224.59. AH v JH [2014] JMSC Civ 68.60. For example see Re Lewis (1970) 15 WIR 520, per Douglas CJ at Family Law in Jamaica 272A father who shows interest and willingness to be involved in the child’s upbringing and is c......
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Fi We Law: The Emergence of Caribbean Jurisprudence and the Doctrine of Precedent
...v Minister of Labour and Immigration (unrep) 15 July 1977, Civ App No 2, 3, 5 of 1977 (CA Ber), affd (1979) 44 WIR 107 (PC Ber). 71. (1970) 15 WIR 520 (HC Bdos) 521. 72. Ibid 522. Transitions in Caribbean Law In approaching the appeal by Eunice Fisher against the deportation order of her ch......