The role of the courts in developing principles of legitimate expectation and creating pro edural and substantive legal rights in commonwealth caribbean publi law
Author | Calvin Eversley |
Position | LLM (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 |
Pages | 95-118 |
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