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JCPC/2023/0073
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CONSTITUTION
Judgment givenCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in setting aside a test case agreement and consent order agreed between the parties?
Linked casesLast updated: 17 April 2025
JCPC/2023/0072
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CONSTITUTION
Judgment givenCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in setting aside a test case agreement and consent order agreed between the parties?
Linked casesLast updated: 17 April 2025
JCPC/2025/0028
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 17 April 2025
JCPC/2021/0117
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CRIME
Judgment scheduledCase summary:Should the Appellant be re-sentenced for murder in light of the Privy Council's decision in Bowe and another v The Queen [2006] UKPC 10?
Last updated: 16 April 2025
JCPC/2022/0054
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TAX
Judgment scheduledCase summary:Should dividends paid by the appellant to its sole shareholder, incorporated in Barbados, be subject to withholding tax at a rate of 5% if identical amounts were subsequently transferred, ultimately, to a parent company incorporated in Canada?
Last updated: 16 April 2025
JCPC/2023/0104
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INSOLVENCY
Judgment givenCase summary:Can the appellant, as the former director of a company in liquidation, apply under section 273 of the Insolvency Act 2003 to reverse a decision made by the liquidators of the company to admit a claim in the liquidation? Can the court exercise its inherent jurisdiction to require the liquidators to make an application under section 210 of the Insolvency Act 2003 to amend or remove the claim?
Last updated: 15 April 2025
JCPC/2025/0014
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Did the courts below fail properly to consider all the evidence in: (1) granting a mortgagee an order for vacant possession over a defaulting mortgagor’s property; and (2) ordering the mortgagor to pay a sum into court before granting an extension of time for permission to appeal that vacant possession order?
Last updated: 10 April 2025
JCPC/2025/0006
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TORT
Appeal issuedCase summary:Was the Court of Appeal wrong to uphold the decision of the General Legal Council, finding Mr Foote guilty of professional negligence and ordering him to pay restitution to his former client?
Last updated: 10 April 2025
JCPC/2025/0027
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 8 April 2025
JCPC/2023/0096
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TAX
Judgment givenCase summary:Was a Société, in which the appellant was a partner, engaged in a business within the meaning of the Income Tax Act 1995?
Last updated: 8 April 2025
JCPC/2025/0026
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 7 April 2025
JCPC/2023/0115
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Hearing listedCase summary:Did the courts below err in finding that the respondent had not breached its duty to take reasonable care to sell a secured asset for the best price reasonably obtainable, in order to settle a debt owed by the appellants to the respondent?
Last updated: 7 April 2025
JCPC/2014/0078
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Judgment givenCase summary:Whether the order of the Registrar striking out the appeal to the JCPC should be set aside Issues in the underlying appeal (1) Whether the Court of Appeal was wrong to hold that: (a) the plaint did not disclose a cause of action based on prescription; (b) the action of the appellant was time barred; (c) the failure to join all the heirs of the deceased was fatal to the claim. (2) Whether the Court of Appeal failed to consider relevant evidence of actual occupation of the land.
Last updated: 7 April 2025
JCPC/2018/0075
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment givenCase summary:This appeal concerns the interpretation and application of section 204 of the Antiguan International Business Corporations Act (“IBCA”) in the context of the liquidation of Stanford International Bank (“SIB”) on the discovery of a large-scale Ponzi scheme.
Last updated: 7 April 2025
JCPC/2023/0097
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Hearing listedCase summary:Are rights to play golf, tennis and to enjoy facilities on certain land in Grand Cayman and associated restrictive agreements binding upon the current owners of that land?
Last updated: 7 April 2025
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