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JCPC/2024/0020
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Hearing listedCase summary:Was the appellant eligible for the position of acting Deputy Chief Fire Officer prior to and/or after August 2019, and by failing to consider him for the post did the first and second respondents: (i) act irrationally, illegally and/or unfairly; (ii) breach Regulation 155 of the Public Service Commission Regulations; (iii) breach the appellant’s right to protection of the law under Section 4(b) of the Constitution, and consequently the appellant’s right to procedural protection under Section 5(2)(h) of the Constitution; and, (iv) breach a legitimate expectation that he would be considered?
Last updated: 3 July 2025
JCPC/2024/0064
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Under a 1975 agreement, was the Appellant entitled to purchase: (a) a 56.5 acre parcel of land; or (b) a parcel of land of a size yet to be confirmed?
Last updated: 3 July 2025
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: 3 July 2025
JCPC/2025/0012
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err by: (1) Failing to give effect to a later contract, known as the “2014 agreement”, which allegedly remained a valid agreement. (2) Conducting an enquiry into sums paid under an earlier agreement, known as the “2007 agreement”, rather than acknowledging the 2014 superseded this agreement. (3) Failing to appreciate that section 11 of the Moneylenders Act was inapplicable to the 2014 agreement. (4) Failing to consider that, if the 2014 agreement was nevertheless non-compliant with section 11, then the Appellant was entitled to relief under the principles of unjust enrichment.
Last updated: 3 July 2025
JCPC/2025/0022
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase 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: 3 July 2025
JCPC/2024/0023
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ARBITRATION
Judgment givenCase summary:The appeal concerns the refusal of an ex parte application for an injunction. The appeal must be heard in private so as to avoid the risk of the anticipated respondents having notice of the proceedings, which would enable them to defeat the purpose of the proceedings.
Last updated: 3 July 2025
JCPC/2024/0037
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Judgment scheduledCase summary:Did the First Respondent breach the fiduciary (professional) duties that it owed to the Appellant as trustee?
Last updated: 3 July 2025
JCPC/2024/0045
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COURT PROCEDURE
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Was the Court of Appeal wrong to reduce the costs that the Appellant could recover from the Respondent? In particular, is there a general rule that brief fees for counsel are irrecoverable as costs in habeas corpus applications?
Last updated: 2 July 2025
JCPC/2025/0042
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INSOLVENCY
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:The operation of the doctrine of common mistake in the context of a sale of shares in an asset-owning company, where the mistake relates to the underlying assets.
Last updated: 1 July 2025
JCPC/2025/0059
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Appeal issuedCase summary:Last updated: 1 July 2025
JCPC/2025/0057
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 30 June 2025
JCPC/2025/0058
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 30 June 2025
JCPC/2024/0005
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CONSTITUTION
Judgment givenCase summary:Did the Governor of the Cayman Islands have the power by reason of section 81 of the Cayman Islands Constitution Order 2009 (the “Constitution”) to enact the Civil Partnership Law 2020? If not, what is the appropriate relief?
Last updated: 30 June 2025
JCPC/2025/0008
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ARBITRATION
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Should a claim by RBH for rectification of JLS’s share register have been stayed on the basis that it is subject to an arbitration agreement between JLS’s shareholders (including RBH)?
Last updated: 27 June 2025
JCPC/2025/0002
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:(1) Was the evidence sufficient to convict the Appellant of joint enterprise murder and reject his “no case to answer” submission? (2) Did the lack of a transcript of the judge’s sentencing preclude the Court of Appeal from properly reviewing that sentencing? (3) Did the Court of Appeal breach the Appellant’s Constitutional rights in upholding the Appellant’s sentence?
Last updated: 26 June 2025
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