Section 123: Right to trial within reasonable time—The appellant was convicted of
consolidated text (as at 2017). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
123. Right to trial within reasonable time—The appellant was convicted of
forgery before the Intermediate Court. The offences had occurred late 1981
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to early 1982 but no information was laid against him until August 1987. It
was not until July 1989 that the case was heard by which time several key
witnesses had died. Following conviction, the appellant appealed, alleging,
inter alia, that the delay in proceedings meant that he had not had a fair trial
under section 10 of the Constitution. The majority of the Court found that
there had not been a breach of section 10 of the Constitution. Lutchmeeparsad v State (1992).