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JCPC/2025/0109
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INSOLVENCY
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Where an individual is declared bankrupt in Jersey, is the bankruptcy official under a duty to return undistributed property to the individual after the bankruptcy is discharged?
Last updated: 13 March 2026
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: 13 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0004
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TORT
Judgment scheduledCase summary:Is there a duty on an Attorney-at-Law to look behind a foreign power of attorney which is regular on its face and satisfies the relevant statutory provisions, and contains no express requirement on its face to look behind it?
Last updated: 13 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0019
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EMPLOYMENT
Awaiting JudgmentCase 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: 13 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0018
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EMPLOYMENT
Awaiting JudgmentCase 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?
Linked casesLast updated: 13 March 2026
JCPC/2024/0031
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NEGLIGENCE
Judgment givenCase summary:1): Did the courts below find as a fact that the fuel from the 2012 leak migrated to the respondent’s land and contaminated it? (2): Is it a precondition to liability under the rule in Rylands v Fletcher that the defendant be in occupation of the land from which the dangerous thing escapes? (3): Is the storage of fuel underground a "non-natural use of land" for the purposes of the rule in Rylands v Fletcher? (4): Did the Court of Appeal err in its assessment of damages?
Last updated: 13 March 2026
JCPC/2024/0094
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Judgment scheduledCase summary:In exercising the Consent Powers, do the Protectors have the Wider Role or the Narrow Role?
Last updated: 13 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0043
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INSOLVENCY
Hearing listedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err (1) by concluding that the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court of Mauritius had granted the Appellant leave under section 154(1)(c) of the Insolvency Act to continue the Plaint in the name and on behalf of the Respondent; and (2) by failing to treat the application as one to enable the Appellant to apply under the Court’s inherent jurisdiction and section 174(3)(a) of the Insolvency Act for leave to continue the Plaint as a derivative claim?
Linked casesLast updated: 13 March 2026
JCPC/2023/0103
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CRIME
Hearing listedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in its interpretation of the Civil Asset Recovery and Management and Unexplained Wealth Act No.8 of 2019 (the “Act”) in finding that the Preliminary Unexplained Wealth Order (“PUWO”) originally imposed under that Act and then set aside by the High Court could be reinstated, including as against the Estate of Sheldon Spring?
Last updated: 13 March 2026
JCPC/2023/0067
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Hearing listedCase summary:(i) Was the Court of Appeal wrong because it did not overturn the decision of the trial judge to strike out Mr Hosein’s constitutional claim on the basis of various factors, in particular the availability of a parallel remedy and the delay in bringing proceedings? (ii) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to conclude there was no evidence of apparent bias on the part of the trial judge?
Last updated: 13 March 2026
JCPC/2024/1004
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EMPLOYMENT
Awaiting hearing dateCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in upholding the Industrial Court’s ruling that the Appellant is the successor to British West Indian Airways and therefore bound to recognise the Respondent as one of its recognised majority unions under the Industrial Relations Act?
Last updated: 13 March 2026
JCPC/2026/0018
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Appeal issuedCase summary:Last updated: 12 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0057
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in dismissing the appellant’s application for an extension of time to appeal against the sentence imposed on him by the trial judge?
Last updated: 12 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0061
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Are Mr Armbrister’s two murder convictions safe?
Last updated: 12 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0102
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal granted in partCase summary:(a) Did the trial judge fail to direct the jury that Miss Moore’s evidence is tainted by improper motive and contradicts the expert medical evidence? (b) Did the Court of Appeal err in finding that the trial judge’s failure to issue a good character direction and the inadequate identification directions did not amount to a miscarriage of justice? (c) Can the Appellant rely on fresh evidence which allegedly undermines the credibility of Miss Moore’s evidence? (d) Did the Court of Appeal err in not deducting the time spent in custody in remand from the Appellant’s sentence? (e) Did the Appellant receive inadequate representation from his defence counsel that infringed on his right to a fair trial?
Linked casesLast updated: 12 March 2026
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