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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/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: 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
JCPC/2025/0056
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 26 June 2025
JCPC/2023/0089
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LANDLORD AND TENANT
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Did the Supreme Court of Mauritius err in concluding that the appellant’s grounds of appeal were not on points of law? Did the Fair Rent Tribunal err in accepting the evidence of the respondent’s valuer’s evidence? Did the Fair Rent Tribunal err by taking into account evidence of rental values from 2017?
Last updated: 26 June 2025
JCPC/2024/0021
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EMPLOYMENT
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in finding that s.93 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act Ch. 88:08 applied to OSHA’s complaint against UWI
Last updated: 25 June 2025
JCPC/2024/0047
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Did the refusal by the Second Respondent to investigate the Appellant’s complaint of unfair dismissal by her employer, a charitable organisation, under the Labour Act (2021 Revision) breach her right to a fair hearing under section 7(1) of the Bill of Rights?
Last updated: 25 June 2025
JCPC/2023/0114
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Judgment givenCase summary:Was the Court of Appeal wrong to hold that (i) there was no binding agreement to pay an additional sum under the contract for services in the absence of approval by the Respondent’s board, and (ii) in the alternative, there was no consideration for a separate agreement to pay the additional sum?
Last updated: 25 June 2025
JCPC/2025/0035
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EMPLOYMENT
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:(1) Whether there is any conflict between the procedure in section 22 of the Labour Relations Code and the right to due process guaranteed by section 16 of the Jamaican Constitution. (2) Whether an appeal can lie to the Privy Council from a refusal of an application seeking leave to appeal.
Last updated: 24 June 2025
JCPC/2024/0044
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment givenCase summary:Is the International Co-operation (Protection from Liability) (Jersey) Law 2018 a disproportionate restriction on the right of access to the court and therefore incompatible with article 6(1) of the European Convention of Human Rights?
Last updated: 24 June 2025
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