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JCPC/2025/0050
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:The case raises the following issues: (1) Did the Court of Appeal err in reversing the finding that the Respondent had not proved documentary title in respect of the contested property? May the courts rely on section 3 of the Conveyancing and Law of Property Act to require the Respondent to deduce title beyond her 1963 Conveyance? (2) Did the Court of Appeal wrongly interfere with the finding that the Appellant had proved intention to possess? Does section 38 of the Limitation Act 1995 apply in the present circumstances? (3) If the Respondent has documentary title and the Appellant has possessory title in respect of the property, does the former, even if defective, constitute better title than the latter in a claim in trespass?
Last updated: 9 September 2026
JCPC/2009/0012
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Judgment given[2009] UKPC 47Case summary:See judgment
Last updated: 9 September 2026
JCPC/2025/0015
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TAX
Judgment given[2026] UKPC 24Case summary:(1) Is an arrangement under which the appellant obtained insurance from an insurer who reinsured the risk with an entity related to the appellant, such that 95% of the premiums were ultimately received by that related entity, a transaction falling within the meaning of section 23 of the Income Tax Act, Chapter 435 (“ITA”)? (2) Is the appellant required to pay withholding tax on the premiums received by its related entity pursuant to section 66 of the ITA? (3) Are profits made by the appellant from hire-purchase agreements taxable at the time the agreements were entered into or upon receipt of the hirer’s instalments under section 9 of the ITA?
Last updated: 9 September 2026
JCPC/2018/0105
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TORT
Judgment given[2022] UKPC 15Case summary:The main issue arising on appeal is whether the Court of Appeal was correct to find that the Appellant’s negligent treatment caused the death of the Respondent’s wife.
Last updated: 9 September 2026
JCPC/2020/0076
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COURT PROCEDURE
Judgment given[2022] UKPC 27Case summary:Did the Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands err in respect of (i) the basis on which it calculated the damages payable to Fenris and (ii) its decision that the period of loss ended at the first instance judgment in 2012, rather than in May 2016.
Last updated: 9 September 2026
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
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