Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

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• The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

  Judgment

  9 November 2026

  Amir Kashiv (Appellant) v Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (Respondent)

  Lord Sales,

  Lord Leggatt,

  Lord Burrows

  Whether the sanction imposed by the Respondent on the Appellant was disproportionate and not founded on sound and lawful reasoning.

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• UK Supreme Court

  Hearing

  10 November 2026

  R (on the application of L1T FM Holdings UK Limited and another) (Appellants) v Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the Cabinet Office (formerly the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) (Respondent)

  Lord Reed,

  Lord Sales,

  Lord Briggs,

  Lady Simler,

  Lord Snowden

  Whether the state is entitled, in light of Article 1 of the First Protocol of the European Convention on Human Rights (“A1P1”), to deprive a person of their possessions in the public interest without paying, or ensuring they recover, market value for those possessions, in circumstances where the policy objective of the deprivation measure is not undermined or diminished by ensuring market value is recovered.

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• The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

  Judgment

  10 November 2026

  The Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago and others (Respondents) v Jason Jones (Appellant) (Trinidad and Tobago)

  Lord Reed,

  Lord Sales,

  Lord Briggs,

  Lord Burrows,

  Lady Rose

  Do sections 13 and 16 of the Sexual Offences Act 1986 (the “Act”) repeal and re-enact sections 59, 60 and 61 of the Offence Against the Person Act 1925 and so fall within section 6 of the Constitution of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (the “Constitution”)? Do sections 13 and 16 of the Act infringe the fundamental rights guaranteed by section 4 of the Constitution? Are sections 13 and 16 of the Act reasonably justifiable, in whole or in part, in a society which has proper respect for the rights and freedoms of the individual?

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• The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

  Hearing

  11 November 2026

  AB (a minor, by their father and next friend) (Appellant) v Minister for Education (Respondent) (Bermuda)

  Lord Hamblen,

  Lord Burrows,

  Lady Simler

  Whether the mandatory testing regime 1. breached the Appellant's constitutional right to not be searched without his consent; 2. were not based on lawful authority; 3. breached the principle of legality.

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• The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

  Judgment

  13 November 2026

  Teresa De Silva (Respondent) v Dindial's Hardware Limited (Appellant) (Trinidad and Tobago)

  Lord Lloyd-Jones,

  Lord Briggs,

  Lord Hamblen,

  Lord Doherty,

  Lord Snowden

  Was the appellant entitled to terminate the contract for the sale of a parcel of land without making time of the essence?

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