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• JCPC/2026/0022

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  UPL Corporation Limited (Appellant) v The Assessment Review Committee and another (Respondents) (Mauritius)
  Appeal issued
  Case summary:
  

  Last updated: 16 March 2026

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• JCPC/2025/0112

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  CRIME

  JU (Appellant) v The King (Respondent) (Cook Islands)
  Permission to Appeal refused
  Case summary:

  Was the Court of Appeal wrong to find that the adoption of the “out of all proportion” test for a discharge without conviction was correct? If not, did the Court of Appeal err in its application of this test on the merits? Did the Court of Appeal err in finding that it had no jurisdiction to grant leave to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in criminal cases?

  Last updated: 16 March 2026

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• JCPC/2026/0021

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  Anthony Clarke (Appellant) v The King (Respondent) (Bahamas)
  Permission to Appeal application lodged
  Case summary:
  

  Last updated: 16 March 2026

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• JCPC/2025/0104

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  CRIME

  Amir Mizrachy (Appellant) v The King (Respondent) (Bermuda)
  Permission to Appeal application lodged
  Case summary:

  Are the appellant’s convictions for (i) wilful damage and (ii) careless driving and driving without reasonable consideration for other road users unsafe?

  Last updated: 16 March 2026

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• JCPC/2026/0007

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  CRIME

  Jahmico Trott (Appellant) v The King (Respondent) (Bermuda)
  Permission to Appeal application lodged
  Case summary:

  (1) Did the trial judge give an improper direction to the jury in relation to the three two-component gunshot particles found on the appellant’s palms? (2) Should the jury have been discharged from giving a verdict in relation to count 3?

  Last updated: 16 March 2026

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• JCPC/2025/0123

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  CRIME

  William Forbes (Appellant) v The King (Respondent) (Bahamas)
  Permission to Appeal application lodged
  Case summary:

  (1) Whether the Court of Appeal erred in not re-opening the Appellant’s appeal against sentence and (2) whether the Appellant’s appeal against the sentence ought to be allowed.

  Last updated: 16 March 2026

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• JCPC/2026/0020

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  Guernsey Financial Services Commission (Respondent) v Adam Tattersall (Appellant) (Guernsey)
  Permission to Appeal application lodged
  Case summary:
  

  Last updated: 16 March 2026

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• JCPC/2025/0004

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  TORT

  Fay Chang Rhule (Appellant) v Angella Smith and another (Respondents) (Jamaica)
  Judgment scheduled
  Case 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: 16 March 2026

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• JCPC/2026/0019

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  Pheonix Insurance (Mauritius) Limited (Appellant) v Iqbal Moolan and 3 others (Respondents) (Mauritius)
  Appeal issued
  Case summary:
  

  Last updated: 13 March 2026

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• JCPC/2025/0018

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  EMPLOYMENT

  Chandradev Appadoo (Appellant) v SBM Bank (Mauritius) Ltd (Respondent) (Mauritius)
  Awaiting Judgment
  Case 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 cases

  JCPC/2025/0019 Chandradev Appadoo (Respondent) v SBM Bank (Mauritius) Ltd (Appellant) No 2 (Mauritius)

  Legal Issue

  Last updated: 13 March 2026

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• JCPC/2025/0019

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  EMPLOYMENT

  Chandradev Appadoo (Respondent) v SBM Bank (Mauritius) Ltd (Appellant) No 2 (Mauritius)
  Awaiting Judgment
  Case 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 cases

  JCPC/2025/0018 Chandradev Appadoo (Appellant) v SBM Bank (Mauritius) Ltd (Respondent) (Mauritius)

  Legal Issue

  Last updated: 13 March 2026

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• JCPC/2025/0109

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  INSOLVENCY

  Alan Paul Booth (Appellant) v The Viscount of the Royal Court of Jersey (Respondent) (Jersey)
  Permission to Appeal refused
  Case 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

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• JCPC/2025/0038

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  COMMERCIAL

  Metatron Global Fund and another (Appellants) v Canada Life International Limited and another (Respondents) (Mauritius)
  Appeal issued
  Case 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

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• JCPC/2024/0031

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  NEGLIGENCE

  Rubis Bahamas Ltd (Appellant) v Lillian Antoinette Russell (Respondent) (The Bahamas)
  Judgment given
  Case 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

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• JCPC/2024/0094

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  BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS

  A and 6 others (Appellants) v C and 13 others (Respondents)
  Judgment scheduled
  Case summary:

  In exercising the Consent Powers, do the Protectors have the Wider Role or the Narrow Role?

  Last updated: 13 March 2026

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