On the 17 April 2024, the Caribbean Court of Justice (“CCJ”) dismissed the appeal in The Barbados Defence Force v David Anthony Harewood [2024] CCJ 15 (AJ) BB, and provided reasons for the decision on 19 July 2024. In these reasons the Court indicated that section 75 of the Defence Act Cap 159 (‘the Act’) met the requirements of legal certainty, and that there is no need for the pre-existence of a written law, rule, regulation, standing order, precedent, or policy proscribing charged behaviour(s) as a pre-condition for laying a charge under section 75 of the Act provided there is sufficiency of detail in the statement of the particulars of the offence.
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