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JCPC/2024/1001
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment given[2026] UKPC 14Case summary:What is the proper approach to the public interest balancing exercise required by section 35 of the Freedom of Information Act (“the FOIA”) where an applicant has requested disclosure of information from a public authority and the public authority considers there to be an applicable exemption?
Last updated: 6 July 2026
JCPC/2024/0094
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Judgment given[2026] UKPC 11Case summary:In exercising the Consent Powers, do the Protectors have the Wider Role or the Narrow Role?
Last updated: 6 July 2026
JCPC/2024/0031
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NEGLIGENCE
Judgment given[2026] UKPC 9Case 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: 6 July 2026
JCPC/2024/0092
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment given[2026] UKPC 8Case summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in finding that the termination notice period given by the Respondents was reasonable?
Last updated: 6 July 2026
JCPC/2023/0077
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TORT
Judgment given[2026] UKPC 5Case summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in upholding the trial judge’s determination that the Appellant had not established to the civil standard that his employer was liable in negligence and that there was no case to answer?
Last updated: 6 July 2026
JCPC/2024/0015
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment given[2026] UKPC 4Case summary:What is the meaning of the words “independent of the Government, Business and Labour” in the context of the appointment of the chairman of the National Insurance Board of Trinidad and Tobago under section 3(2)(d) of the National Insurance Act 1971?
Last updated: 6 July 2026
JCPC/2022/0011
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CONSTITUTION
Judgment given[2026] UKPC 3Case summary:What is the correct interpretation of Section 121(1) of the Constitution of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and Regulation 168 of the Public Service Commission Regulations (“Reg. 168”) in the context of prison officer promotions?
Last updated: 6 July 2026
JCPC/2024/0062
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment given[2026] UKPC 2Case summary:Whether compliance with conditions precedent to payment in a FIDIC contract is essential in order to enable a contractor to recover payment for variations alleged to have been made.
Last updated: 6 July 2026
JCPC/2025/0036
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TORT
Judgment given[2026] UKPC 1Case summary:Was the Court of Appeal correct to interfere with the High Court’s finding that the appellant doctor was not negligent?
Last updated: 6 July 2026
JCPC/2021/0047
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Judgment given[2022] UKPC 57Case summary:Can the appellant enforce the terms of a compromise agreement which purports to vary the terms of a will? Is the appellant entitled to any other relief?
Last updated: 6 July 2026
JCPC/2019/0123
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NEGLIGENCE
Judgment given[2022] UKPC 56Case summary:(i) Whether the Appellant was negligent. (ii) Whether the trial judge had sufficient evidence to conclude that the Appellant’s pipeline was the cause of the damage to the Respondents’ home.
Last updated: 6 July 2026
JCPC/2022/0018
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CONSTITUTIONS
Judgment given[2022] UKPC 54Case summary:Whether the Court of Appeal erred in law in: (i) setting aside the judge’s award of vindicatory damages; (ii) finding that JM had been lawfully detained at St Michael’s between September 2012 and June 2014; (iii) not awarding damages in respect of that detention; (iv) finding that JM had not been subjected to cruel and unusual treatment; (v) setting aside the judge’s assessment of the quantum of damages for JM’s detention at St Ann’s.
Last updated: 6 July 2026
JCPC/2017/0067
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CRIME
Judgment given[2022] UKPC 53Case summary:Did the Court of Appeal of Trinidad and Tobago err in overturning the trial Judge’s factual findings that there was a lack of honest belief and malice in the arrest and charge of the appellant?
Last updated: 6 July 2026
JCPC/2021/0090
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PROCEDURE
Judgment given[2022] UKPC 50Case summary:Whether the Court of Appeal was correct to: (i) hold that the Appellants’ substantive appeal was hopeless and therefore not genuine; (ii) hold that the Appellants required leave to appeal in respect of the costs order; (iii) not grant leave to appeal the costs order; (iv) find that there had been an abuse of process; (v) not hold that the judge was wrong in making the costs order she did.
Last updated: 6 July 2026
JCPC/2022/0017
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PROCEDURE
Judgment given[2022] UKPC 49Case summary:(1) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to overturn the High Court Judge’s decision on the basis that the case against the Judicial and Legal Service Commission had not been articulated in the appellant’s pleadings and evidence? (2) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to find that there was no breach of the appellant’s constitutional right to the protection of the law?
Last updated: 6 July 2026
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