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JCPC/2025/0109
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INSOLVENCY
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase 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: 2 January 2026
JCPC/2025/0102
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:(a) Did the trial judge fail to direct the jury that Miss Moore’s evidence is tainted by improper motive and contradicts the expert medical evidence? (b) Did the Court of Appeal err in finding that the trial judge’s failure to issue a good character direction and the inadequate identification directions did not amount to a miscarriage of justice? (c) Can the Appellant rely on fresh evidence which allegedly undermines the credibility of Miss Moore’s evidence? (d) Did the Court of Appeal err in not deducting the time spent in custody in remand from the Appellant’s sentence? (e) Did the Appellant receive inadequate representation from his defence counsel that infringed on his right to a fair trial?
Linked casesLast updated: 2 January 2026
JCPC/2025/0101
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:(a) Did the Court of Appeal err in refusing to admit fresh evidence of Miss Moore’s recantation? (b) Did the Court of Appeal misconstrue section 16(2) of the Judicature (Supreme Court) Act in finding that the court reporter is not obliged to record the closing speech of the prosecution? (c) Can the issue of the Appellant’s right to a fair trial be decided in the absence of a transcript of the closing speech? (d) Was there misconduct by the prosecution in the course of the trial besides the remarks made in the closing speech? Did this alleged misconduct breach the Appellant’s right to a fair trial?
Linked casesLast updated: 2 January 2026
JCPC/2025/0017
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Whether the Court of Appeal erred in treating the central issue as one of trespass in 2015 and in finding that the Appellant had no better right to the land and that his conduct amounted to trespass.
Last updated: 24 December 2025
JCPC/2025/0090
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Having found that the Appellant’s constitutional right to a fair trial within a reasonable time had been breached, did the trial judge err in declining to order a permanent stay of the proceedings? Did the Court of Appeal err in finding that the trial judge was correct to dismiss the Appellant’s further applications for the proceedings to be stayed? Did the trial judge misdirect herself on whether actual suspicion is an element of the offence under section 30(2)(a) of the Proceeds of Crime Ordinance? Did the trial judge fail to analyse the defence’s evidence on the Appellant’s subjective state of mind? Did the Court of Appeal err by misapplying the statutory proviso contained in section 7(1) of the Court of Appeal Ordinance?
Linked casesLast updated: 23 December 2025
JCPC/2025/0117
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LANDLORD AND TENANT
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Were the courts below wrong to order the appellant to quit, leave and vacate the flat which he had been leasing from the respondents?
Last updated: 23 December 2025
JCPC/2025/0025
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Was there a breach of the Appellant’s constitutional right to a fair hearing guaranteed under section 10(1) of the Constitution of Mauritius in the way that criminal proceedings concerning the Appellant were conducted?
Last updated: 23 December 2025
JCPC/2025/0123
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 22 December 2025
JCPC/2025/0051
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EXTRADITION
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Can the appellant lawfully be extradited to the USA to be tried for drug-trafficking related offences?
Last updated: 22 December 2025
JCPC/2025/0091
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INSOLVENCY
Appeal issuedCase summary:(1) Can a solicitor’s right to a lien over their client’s documents for unpaid fees be defeated by the power of a liquidator under section 45 of the Co-operative Societies Act to compel the production of documents? (2) Were there any issues with the service of the warrant for commitment to prison by failing to serve the documents on the Appellant personally?
Last updated: 19 December 2025
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: 19 December 2025
JCPC/2024/0088
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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.
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Last updated: 19 December 2025
JCPC/2024/0069
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CONSTITUTION
Hearing listedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in holding that a claim for judicial review was available to the Respondent and that the statutory scheme governing disciplinary proceedings did not provide an effective alternative remedy for her jurisdictional complaint?
Last updated: 19 December 2025
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: 19 December 2025
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: 19 December 2025
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