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JCPC/2025/0053
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INSOLVENCY
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Whether the Court of Appeal erred in finding that the Appellant did not have standing to pursue an appeal.
Last updated: 21 January 2026
JCPC/2024/0087
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Hearing listedCase summary:Whether the Court of Appeal erred in: (a) Finding the Appellant acted unreasonably in failing to consider the Respondent for promotion? (b) Finding that the Appellant’s decision of 21 April 2015 was arrived at by a process outside of that prescribed by the Public Service Commission Regulations? (c) Finding no interference between Regulation 8 of the Fire Service (Terms and Conditions of Employment) Regulations 1998 and section 121 and 129 of the Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago. (d) Holding that Regulation 8 is non-binding on the Appellant unless and until specifically adopted and incorporated into the Public Service (Commission) Regulation. (e) making findings as to the role of the Chief Personnel Officer without affording them an opportunity to be heard. (f) Not placing sufficient weight on the Board’s decisions in The Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue v Finbar Boland and ors [2023] UKPC 27 and Ramsahai v Teaching Service Commission [2011] UKPC 26? (g) finding that if there had been a claim for constitutional relief, and a breach of a constitutional right has been found, it should not matter that the breach found is not the particular breach in respect of which the claim is made? (h) finding that there was a breach of the Respondent’s right to protection of the law under section 4(b) of the Constitution, in circumstances where the Respondent did not claim such relief.
Linked casesLast updated: 21 January 2026
JCPC/2025/0022
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CRIME
Hearing listedCase summary:(1) Should fresh psychiatric evidence regarding the appellant, obtained after his conviction for murder, be admitted and considered by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council? (2) Does the fresh psychiatric evidence show that the appellant was not guilty of murder but of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility or, alternatively, that the appellant was not fit to plead or stand trial? (3) Did the trial judge materially misdirect the jury as to the elements of the defence of provocation?
Last updated: 21 January 2026
JCPC/2025/0018
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EMPLOYMENT
Hearing listedCase 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: 21 January 2026
JCPC/2025/0096
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Does the High Court have jurisdiction to review the appellant’s sentence of life imprisonment after the expiration of the minimum term she was required to serve before becoming eligible for release?
Last updated: 21 January 2026
JCPC/2025/0068
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Issues include whether (i) the Court of Appeal’s decision is procedurally invalid; (ii) the Court of Appeal erred in respect of various matters relating to the trial judge’s approach; (iii) the prosecution failed to do disclose material evidence; and (iv) the appellant’s sentence is unduly severe.
Last updated: 21 January 2026
JCPC/2025/0033
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EMPLOYMENT
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Mr Chad Antoine, a former policeman who was dismissed for a disciplinary offence, claimed that the Commissioner of the Police’s failure to pay him a gratuity and pension was unconstitutional discrimination. Were the courts below wrong to dismiss his claim?
Last updated: 21 January 2026
JCPC/2025/0026
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Did the trial judge wrongly admit evidence of (1) a confession and record of interview given by the appellant, (2) of a confrontation between the appellant and another prisoner?
Last updated: 20 January 2026
JCPC/2025/0067
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Were the Appellant’s convictions safe overall?
Last updated: 20 January 2026
JCPC/2025/0115
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Did the Courts in the first, third and fourth bail hearings err in refusing to grant bail to the Appellant? Did the Court in the second bail hearing err in keeping the Appellant in detention, but granting him conditional bail if the prosecutor does not lodge formal charges within 6 months?
Last updated: 20 January 2026
JCPC/2025/0057
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase 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: 20 January 2026
JCPC/2025/0048
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Hearing listedCase summary:Is the mortgage agreement between the parties void or voidable on the basis of (i) total failure of consideration or (ii) mistake or frustration? Did the respondent bank have a duty to deliver good and marketable title? Did the instructed attorneys act for the bank such that the bank ought to sue them rather than the appellant for negligence in failing to report on title defects?
Last updated: 19 January 2026
JCPC/2025/0036
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TORT
Judgment givenCase summary:Was the Court of Appeal correct to interfere with the High Court’s finding that the appellant doctor was not negligent?
Last updated: 19 January 2026
JCPC/2025/0103
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TAX
Appeal issuedCase summary:Is the First Respondent entitled to a partial tax exemption on interest income received from certain loans?
Last updated: 16 January 2026
JCPC/2025/0047
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Appeal issuedCase summary:Is there a binding agreement for the grant of a lease?
Last updated: 16 January 2026
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