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JCPC/2023/0097
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Judgment given[2025] UKPC 27Case 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: 8 September 2026
JCPC/2026/0008
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Does the Appeal Division have jurisdiction to grant leave to appeal to the Privy Council pursuant to section 24(1)(a) of the High Court Act 1991 if it has refused permission to appeal (to itself) from the High Court? Does the JCPC have jurisdiction to grant special leave to appeal in circumstances where the Appeal Division has refused to grant permission to appeal to itself from a ruling of the High Court? Did the Deemster err in his construction and application of section 21 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991?
Last updated: 8 September 2026
JCPC/2025/0116
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ARBITRATION
Hearing listedCase summary:Whether the recognition and enforcement of an arbitral award, insofar as it seeks to award third-party litigation costs incurred pursuant to a litigation funding agreement, is contrary to the public policy of Mauritius within the meaning of Article V(2)(b) of the United Nations Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (1958) as enacted.
Last updated: 8 September 2026
JCPC/2025/0062
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COMMERCIAL
Hearing listedCase summary:Did the courts below err in finding that the Appellant unreasonably failed to mitigate its loss? If the courts below were correct to find that the defendant unreasonably failed to mitigate its loss, did that failure arise: (1) on 31 January 2012, when the Appellant instructed the Respondent to reconvert the money in its account from US dollars into South African Rands (as the Commercial Division found), or (2) on 1 March 2012, owing to the Appellant’s failure to direct that the money in its account be converted into US dollars (as the Court of Civil Appeal found)?
Last updated: 8 September 2026
JCPC/2026/0017
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INSOLVENCY
Hearing listedCase summary:(1) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to hold that the loss to an insolvent company caused by preferential payments made to a creditor includes the loss suffered by its general body of creditors? (2) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to order the director of the company to pay equitable compensation for such loss, in circumstances where the director had not obtained any profits by the breach of their fiduciary duty? (3) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to award pre-judgment interest at 5% per annum running from 29 November 2009?
Last updated: 8 September 2026
JCPC/2023/0115
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Judgment given[2025] UKPC 24Case 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: 8 September 2026
JCPC/2025/0083
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CONSTITUTION
Hearing listedCase summary:Has the Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago breached the constitutional rights of the appellant as a victim of crime, by failing to prosecute the individual accused of assaulting her within a reasonable period of time?
Last updated: 8 September 2026
JCPC/2025/0094
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VETERINARY SURGEONS
Hearing listedCase summary:Whether the sanction imposed by the Respondent on the Appellant was disproportionate and not founded on sound and lawful reasoning.
Last updated: 8 September 2026
JCPC/2025/0107
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Hearing listedCase summary:Is the claimant entitled to an order vesting in him title to the land owned by the second defendant, based on the claimant’s occupation of the land for over 16 years?
Last updated: 8 September 2026
JCPC/2025/0086
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CRIME
Hearing listedCase summary:Are the Appellants’ convictions and sentences for murder unsafe in circumstances of an alleged plea deal on the part of an accomplice whose evidence was uncorroborated?
Last updated: 8 September 2026
JCPC/2025/0087
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EMPLOYMENT
Hearing listedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in finding that the respondent did not commit an industrial relations offence under section 40(1) of the Industrial Relations Act Chap 88:01?
Last updated: 8 September 2026
JCPC/2025/0118
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EMPLOYMENT
Hearing listedCase summary:Does the Industrial Court have jurisdiction to decide that a failure to provide for retirement benefits constitutes a breach of good industrial relations practices for which an award was justifiable under the Industrial Relations Act 1972, section 10(3)?
Last updated: 8 September 2026
JCPC/2025/0039
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INSOLVENCY
Hearing listedCase summary:(1) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to hold that a ‘take or pay’ provision in two expired gas contracts had been incorporated into a subsequent agreement for the continued provision of gas on the same terms? (2) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to hold that the appellant had failed to prove its debt?
Last updated: 8 September 2026
JCPC/2026/0081
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Appeal issuedCase summary:Last updated: 8 September 2026
JCPC/2009/0023
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment given[2010] UKPC 6Case summary:An appeal relating to disciplinary charges against the Chief Magistrate of Trinidad and Tobago.
Last updated: 8 September 2026
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