The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) is facing renewed pressure on their role in determining capital punishment cases.

Owen Bowcott and Maya Wolfe-Robinson have written today:



"In July, senior British lawyers will fly to St Kitts and Nevis to represent, in local courts, four islanders who have been condemned to hang after being convicted of murdering a key witness in a gangland trial. The lives of Romeo Cannonier, Louis Gardener, Sheldon Isaac and Ruedeney Williams were saved in 2009 when judges on the judicial committee of the privy council sitting in Westminster granted them a temporary stay of execution – known formally as a "conservatory order". One of the men, Sheldon Isaac, has suffered brain damage from a gunshot. Their appeals could yet return to London."



The JCPC is defined as 'the court of final appeal for the UK overseas territories and Crown dependencies, and for those Commonwealth countries that have retained the appeal to Her Majesty in Council or, in the case of Republics, to the Judicial Committee'. However fresh pressure has come as the JCPC is seen by various countries - with some practising capital punishment - as a remains of past colonial rule.

The JCPC publish details of appeals entered and disposed of by country, we have collected this details in our spreadsheet and can be seen in the table below for 2007 - the latest available year.

The spreadsheet also contains details on the number of cost bills assessed and their average value for both the JCPC and the House of Lords as published by the ONS. What can you do with this data?

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Appeals entered and dismissed of by country - 2007 Click heading to sort - Download this data Country or Jurisdiction of origin Place Number of appeals entered Appeals disposed of after hearing - Dism - issed Appeals disposed of after hearing - Varied or all - owed in part Appeals disposed of after hearing - Allo - wed Without a hear - ing * Total Appeals pend - ing at end of year Anquilla Over - seas 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Antigua and Barbuda Over - seas 2 1 0 1 0 2 5 The Bahamas Over - seas 9 5 0 3 0 8 7 Barbados Over - seas 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 Belize Over - seas 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 Bermuda Over - seas 5 1 0 1 0 2 1 British Virgin Islands Over - seas 7 0 0 1 0 1 3 Brunei Over - seas 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 Cayman Islands Over - seas 2 1 0 4 0 5 2 Dominica Over - seas 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Gibraltar Over - seas 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 Guernsey Over - seas 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 Grenada Over - seas 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Isle of Man Over - seas 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 Jamaica Over - seas 8 9 0 5 0 14 4 Jersey Over - seas 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 Mauritius Over - seas 13 7 0 3 0 10 10 New Zealand Over - seas 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 St Christopher & Nevis Over - seas 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 St Lucia Over - seas 7 3 0 1 0 4 5 St Vincent and the Grenadines Over - seas 2 0 0 2 0 2 2 Trinidad and Tobago Over - seas 27 6 0 5 0 11 19 Turks & Caicos Over - seas 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 Appeals under the Scotland Act 1998 UK 2 1 0 1 0 2 0 Appeals under the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966 UK 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 Total 97 38 0 33 0 71 69

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