The role of the courts in developing principles of legitimate expectation and creating pro edural and substantive legal rights in commonwealth caribbean publi law

AuthorCalvin Eversley
PositionLLM (Harvard), I.I.B (Hons), LEG, DPA (Distinction), Head of Department & Senior Lecturer in Law of the UWI/COB I.LB Programme; Attorney-at-law of the US Third Circuit Court of Appeal, New York, Guyana and Barbados
Pages95-118
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