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JCPC/2024/0037
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Did the First Respondent breach the fiduciary (professional) duties that it owed to the Appellant as trustee?
Last updated: 16 May 2025
JCPC/2025/0042
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 16 May 2025
JCPC/2023/0095
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CONSTITUTION
Judgment givenCase summary:Is section 37(3) of the Immigration (Transition) Act (2021 Revision) incompatible with the right to private and family life under section 9 of the Bill of Rights?
Last updated: 15 May 2025
JCPC/2024/0033
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment givenCase summary:(1) Was the police’s seizure and detention of property pursuant to its powers under the State Lands Act Chap. 57:01 (“the Act”) lawful? (2) Who had jurisdiction and control over the property from the time of its seizure? (3) What is the correct process for the owner of the property seized to seek its release?
Last updated: 15 May 2025
JCPC/2025/0041
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 15 May 2025
JCPC/2025/0040
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LANDLORD AND TENANT
Appeal issuedCase summary:Last updated: 14 May 2025
JCPC/2025/0018
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EMPLOYMENT
Appeal issuedCase summary:(1) For the purpose of calculating the severance allowance, did the Court of Appeal err in overturning the first instance finding of fact that there had been a break in Mr Appadoo’s employment between 24 November 2012 and 24 December 2012? (2) What rate of interest, if any, should be awarded on Mr Appadoo’s severance allowance?
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Last updated: 14 May 2025
JCPC/2025/0019
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EMPLOYMENT
Appeal issuedCase summary:(1) For the purpose of calculating the severance allowance, did the Court of Appeal err in overturning the first instance finding of fact that there had been a break in Mr Appadoo’s employment between 24 November 2012 and 24 December 2012? (2) What rate of interest, if any, should be awarded on Mr Appadoo’s severance allowance?
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Last updated: 14 May 2025
JCPC/2024/0039
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EMPLOYMENT
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in setting aside awards of exemplary damages and costs for an unfair dismissal that had been found to be “harsh and oppressive”?
Last updated: 13 May 2025
JCPC/2025/0038
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COMMERCIAL
Appeal issuedCase summary:Last updated: 13 May 2025
JCPC/2025/0003
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:(1) Whether the Court of Appeal was correct that the appellants’ counterclaim for adverse possession against the second respondent was not procedurally compliant and was in fact an ancillary claim? (2) Whether the trial judge was wrong not to make a declaration in favour of the appellants for adverse possession of the annex on the second respondent’s property?
Last updated: 8 May 2025
JCPC/2025/0001
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Whether certain areas of land in a residential development are “common areas”, who owns the land in question, and whether the developer is entitled to expand a marina in the development.
Last updated: 8 May 2025
JCPC/2025/0037
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COURT PROCEDURE
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 7 May 2025
JCPC/2018/0038
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Judgment givenCase summary:Whether the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal erred in holding that the deceased was entitled to dispose of his property to his wife and children by testamentary disposition, having stipulated in a marriage covenant that there shall be no dower.
Last updated: 7 May 2025
JCPC/2017/0048
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CONSTITUTIONS
Judgment givenCase summary:Is the list of deemed “belongers” in section 11(5) of the Constitution of Bermuda an exclusive list such that it excludes non-naturalised British Overseas Territories (“BOT”) citizens who acquired citizenship by virtue of their connection to Bermuda?
Last updated: 7 May 2025
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