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JCPC/2019/0023
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COMMERCIAL
WithdrawnCase summary:Whether the amount of damages awarded to the Appellants was correct.
Last updated: 6 November 2025
JCPC/2024/0092
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COMMERCIAL
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in finding that the termination notice period given by the Respondents was reasonable?
Last updated: 6 November 2025
JCPC/2025/0092
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Having found that the Appellant’s constitutional right to a trial within a reasonable time had been breached, did the Judge err in declining to order a permanent stay of the proceedings on the ground of abuse of process? Did the Court of Appeal err in finding that the Judge was correct to dismiss the Appellant’s applications for the proceedings to be stayed? Did the Judge err in her assessment of the evidence offered by the Appellant as part of his defence, and did the Court of Appeal err in declining to interfere with the Judge’s findings? Did the Court of Appeal err in finding that the Judge’s failure to properly apply the good character direction in relation to FBH did not affect the safety of his conviction? Did the Court of Appeal err by misapplying the statutory proviso contained in section 7(1) of the Court of Appeal Ordinance?
Last updated: 6 November 2025
JCPC/2025/0094
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VETERINARY SURGEONS
Appeal issuedCase summary:Whether the sanction imposed by the Respondent on the Appellant was disproportionate and not founded on sound and lawful reasoning.
Last updated: 4 November 2025
JCPC/2025/0081
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in finding that it would be disproportionate to enforce the confiscation order made against the Respondent in circumstances where his co-defendant had satisfied the confiscation order made against that co-defendant?
Linked casesLast updated: 4 November 2025
JCPC/2025/0065
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NEGLIGENCE
Permission to Appeal grantedCase summary:These appeals concern allegations of clinical negligence following Aeden’s birth. The issues raised for the JCPC’s consideration all concern findings of fact in relation to the cause of Aeden’s cerebral palsy. In Dr Abdulla’s appeal: (1) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to find that the High Court had made a “plainly wrong” finding of fact as to the timing of Dr Abdulla’s arrival? (2) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to find that causation was inevitably proved against Dr Abdulla, if it was proved that he arrived at 4am? In Aeden’s appeal: Was Court of Appeal wrong to uphold the High Court’s finding that it had not been proved that Surgi-Med Co Ltd’s breach of duty caused Aeden’s cerebral palsy?
Linked casesLast updated: 4 November 2025
JCPC/2025/0063
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NEGLIGENCE
Permission to Appeal grantedCase summary:These appeals concern allegations of clinical negligence following Aeden’s birth. The issues raised for the JCPC’s consideration all concern findings of fact in relation to the cause of Aeden’s cerebral palsy. In Dr Abdulla’s appeal: (1) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to find that the High Court had made a “plainly wrong” finding of fact as to the timing of Dr Abdulla’s arrival? (2) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to find that causation was inevitably proved against Dr Abdulla, if it was proved that he arrived at 4am? In Aeden’s appeal: Was Court of Appeal wrong to uphold the High Court’s finding that it had not been proved that Surgi-Med Co Ltd’s breach of duty caused Aeden’s cerebral palsy?
Linked casesLast updated: 4 November 2025
JCPC/2025/0016
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Was the Court of Appeal correct in finding that the respondents had a greater right to the land than the appellant?
Last updated: 4 November 2025
JCPC/2024/0075
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EMPLOYMENT
Awaiting hearing dateCase summary:Did an attorney’s conduct of refunding the deposit in full solely to a co-client as co-purchaser following the cancellation of a sale agreement amount to a breach of Canon IV(s) of the Legal Profession (Canons of Professional Ethics) Rules 1978? If so, what is the appropriate sanction and what rules of due process apply to disciplinary proceedings?
Last updated: 3 November 2025
JCPC/2025/0010
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Is the Appellant or the Respondent the lawful tenant of a plot of land? Was there a valid transfer by Justina Joseph (the “Deceased”) of the tenancy rights to the land and a chattel house built upon it to the Respondent in 1990?
Last updated: 3 November 2025
JCPC/2025/0108
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 3 November 2025
JCPC/2024/0050
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment givenCase summary:Whether pleading a case solely on the basis of quantum meruit – and on the absence of a contract – precludes the award of damages for breach of contract (to the party pleading the quantum meruit case).
Last updated: 30 October 2025
JCPC/2023/0109
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment givenCase summary:In what circumstances are Commissioners to a Commission of Enquiry required to give notice to individuals that it intends to criticise them in its report?
Last updated: 30 October 2025
JCPC/2025/0036
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TORT
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Was the Court of Appeal correct to interfere with the High Court’s finding that the appellant doctor was not negligent?
Last updated: 29 October 2025
JCPC/2023/0048
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CRIME
Awaiting JudgmentCase 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: 28 October 2025
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