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JCPC/2025/0013
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INSOLVENCY
Case summary:(1) Was the Court of Civil Appeal wrong in holding that the Appellants should have challenged the validity of the appointment of the Second Respondent as administrator, and applied to bring such appointment to an end, in first instance proceedings under ss. 214, 219 and 281 of the Insolvency Act 2009 (“IA 2009”) (being remedies that remain available to them)? (2) Should the Board grant a stay of the orders appointing the administrator pending the determination of the appeal on the merits?
Last updated: 6 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0030
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err by breaching the Appellant’s fair trial rights, in failing to provide sufficient reasons and consideration to the Appellant’s submissions?
Last updated: 6 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0115
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal refusedCase 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: 5 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0096
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal refusedCase 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: 5 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0049
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COURT PROCEDURE
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Did the trial judge err by granting the Respondent permission to file and serve a witness summary?
Last updated: 5 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0114
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Appeal issuedCase summary:Was the Supreme Court of Mauritius correct to decline to determine Trait d’Union Ltée’s application for judicial review? Did the Director-General of the Mauritius Revenue Authority act illegally or unreasonably by demanding the payment of Advertising Structure Fees?
Last updated: 4 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0033
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EMPLOYMENT
Permission to Appeal refusedCase 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: 4 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0004
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TORT
Awaiting JudgmentCase 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: 3 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0097
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TORT
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Whether the Court of Appeal erred in reinstating the default judgment against the Attorney General
Last updated: 2 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0108
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TAX
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Did the Supreme Court of Mauritius err in their interpretation of “permanent place of abode” for the purposes of section 73(1)(a)(i) of the Income Tax Act 1995 (the “ITA”)?
Last updated: 2 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0099
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Whether the Respondent’s refusal to revalidate the import licences for certain imported cars after 2021 was an unlawful fettering of their discretion and/or was it otherwise unlawful on public law grounds, including the Appellants’ legitimate expectations of a revalidation or their unequal treatment by the Respondent?
Last updated: 2 March 2026
JCPC/2024/0102
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Hearing listedCase summary:For the purposes of establishing ownership of a property, does section 16(1) of the Registration of Deeds Act mean that a deed which is registered earlier takes priority over a deed which is registered later, even if the former was executed after the latter?
Last updated: 2 March 2026
JCPC/2024/1004
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EMPLOYMENT
Hearing listedCase 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: 2 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: 2 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: 2 March 2026
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