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JCPC/2024/0095
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Awaiting judgmentCase summary:Last updated: 21 October 2025
JCPC/2025/0038
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COMMERCIAL
Appeal issuedCase summary:Did the Supreme Court err in refusing to exercise its discretion to grant the Appellants permission to appeal out of time?
Last updated: 20 October 2025
JCPC/2025/0106
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EMPLOYMENT
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 20 October 2025
JCPC/2024/0063
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TAX
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Did the Supreme Court of Mauritius err in finding that, for the purposes of computing taxable profit arising from the sale of 93 plots following the parcelling of land, it was the value of the land ‘just before its development’, and not its historical cost at the date of acquisition, which should be taken into account pursuant to s.10(3) of the Income Tax Act 1995?
Last updated: 20 October 2025
JCPC/2025/0069
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VETERINARY SURGEONS
Appeal issuedCase summary:(1) Whether the admissions made by the Appellant before the Disciplinary Committee of the Respondent (the “Disciplinary Committee”) should be vacated on appeal? (2) Whether “new” evidence produced by the Appellant since the original hearing should be admissible?
Last updated: 20 October 2025
JCPC/2025/0048
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Appeal issuedCase summary:Is the mortgage agreement between the parties void or voidable on the basis of (i) total failure of consideration or (ii) mistake or frustration? Did the respondent bank have a duty to deliver good and marketable title? Did the instructed attorneys act for the bank such that the bank ought to sue them rather than the appellant for negligence in failing to report on title defects?
Last updated: 17 October 2025
JCPC/2025/0035
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EMPLOYMENT
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:(1) Whether there is any conflict between the procedure in section 22 of the Labour Relations Code and the right to due process guaranteed by section 16 of the Jamaican Constitution. (2) Whether an appeal can lie to the Privy Council from a refusal of an application seeking leave to appeal.
Last updated: 17 October 2025
JCPC/2025/0002
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:(1) Was the evidence sufficient to convict the Appellant of joint enterprise murder and reject his “no case to answer” submission? (2) Did the lack of a transcript of the judge’s sentencing preclude the Court of Appeal from properly reviewing that sentencing? (3) Did the Court of Appeal breach the Appellant’s Constitutional rights in upholding the Appellant’s sentence?
Last updated: 17 October 2025
JCPC/2025/0042
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INSOLVENCY
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:The operation of the doctrine of common mistake in the context of a sale of shares in an asset-owning company, where the mistake relates to the underlying assets.
Last updated: 17 October 2025
JCPC/2025/0053
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INSOLVENCY
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Whether the Court of Appeal erred in finding that the Appellant did not have standing to pursue an appeal.
Last updated: 17 October 2025
JCPC/2025/0036
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TORT
Hearing listedCase summary:Was the Court of Appeal correct to interfere with the High Court’s finding that the appellant doctor was not negligent?
Last updated: 16 October 2025
JCPC/2023/0048
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CRIME
Hearing listedCase summary:Having found the appellant guilty of damage and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life, but having acquitted him of armed robbery, had the jury been misdirected by the judge and did they deliver inconsistent verdicts as a result? If so, is the appellant’s conviction unsafe?
Last updated: 16 October 2025
JCPC/2024/0031
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NEGLIGENCE
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:(1) Can claims for unliquidated damages exceeding $4,000 give rise to appeals to the JCPC as of right under section 23(1) of the Bahamas Court of Appeal Act (the “CA Act”)? (2) Does the rule in Rylands v Fletcher impose strict liability on a landowner and lessor who neither occupies the land, nor owns or controls the dangerous thing? (3) Is the storage of fuel underground a “non-natural use of land” for the purposes of the rule in Rylands v Fletcher?
Last updated: 15 October 2025
JCPC/2025/0015
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TAX
Appeal issuedCase summary:(1) Is an arrangement under which the appellant obtained insurance from an insurer who reinsured the risk with an entity related to the appellant, such that 95% of the premiums were ultimately received by that related entity, a transaction falling within the meaning of section 23 of the Income Tax Act, Chapter 435 (“ITA”)? (2) Is the appellant required to pay withholding tax on the premiums received by its related entity pursuant to section 66 of the ITA? (3) Are profits made by the appellant from hire-purchase agreements taxable at the time the agreements were entered into or upon receipt of the hirer’s instalments under section 9 of the ITA?
Last updated: 14 October 2025
JCPC/2025/0055
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COMMERCIAL
Appeal issuedCase summary:Did the judge err in ordering HSBC to repay to Bettas the funds in its HSBC account together with both: (i) interest (to be assessed if not agreed) from the commencement of proceedings in 2011 until the date of judgment; and (ii) statutory interest from the date of judgment until the date of payment? Did the Court of Appeal err in setting aside the judge’s costs order?
Linked casesLast updated: 14 October 2025
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