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JCPC/2025/0123
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal grantedCase summary:(1) Whether the Court of Appeal erred in not re-opening the Appellant’s appeal against sentence and (2) whether the Appellant’s appeal against the sentence ought to be allowed.
Last updated: 8 June 2026
JCPC/2026/0003
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COURT PROCEDURE
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:(1) Does Order 6 ‘Writs of Summons: General Provisions’, rule 5 of the Grand Court Rules (“O6, r5”) require a claimant to provide a service address within the jurisdiction of the Cayman Islands to issue proceedings? (2) In the circumstances of the present appeal, should the appeal be heard on an ex parte basis without the participation of the respondent?
Last updated: 8 June 2026
JCPC/2025/0004
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TORT
Judgment givenCase 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: 8 June 2026
JCPC/2026/0007
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal granted in partCase summary:(1) Did the trial judge give an improper direction to the jury in relation to the three two-component gunshot particles found on the appellant’s palms? (2) Should the jury have been discharged from giving a verdict in relation to count 3?
Last updated: 8 June 2026
JCPC/2026/0015
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FAMILY
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Was the judgment of the Family Registrar, which ordered the sale of the former matrimonial home of the Appellant and the Respondent, ultra vires? Were the proceedings below unfair in various ways?
Last updated: 8 June 2026
JCPC/2021/0043
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Judgment givenCase summary:Whether the Court of Appeal was justified in: (i) reversing the decision of the trial judge in the High Court; and having found that the disputed deed was executed, and the land transferred by mistake, (ii) imposing the type and amount of remedy it did.
Last updated: 8 June 2026
JCPC/2022/0017
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PROCEDURE
Judgment givenCase 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: 8 June 2026
JCPC/2021/0106
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment givenCase summary:(i) Was the Respondent contractually entitled to increase the Guaranteed Cost of Insurance from the second year of the Policy? (ii) Was the Respondent entitled to lapse and terminate the policy on Sunday 7 September 2014, the date set out in the Notice of Pending Cancellation dated 18 August 2014? (iii) If the Account Value was, in fact, insufficient to meet the Monthly Deductions at the relevant point in time, was the correct lapse date in fact 8 September 2014, such that the quarterly premium payment tendered by the Appellant on 8 September 2014 was on time?
Last updated: 8 June 2026
JCPC/2021/0090
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PROCEDURE
Judgment givenCase 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: 8 June 2026
JCPC/2026/0023
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COURT PROCEDURE
Permission to Appeal grantedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in law by refusing to strike out the respondent’s claim on the basis that it was an abuse of process?
Last updated: 8 June 2026
JCPC/2026/0045
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Appeal issuedCase summary:Last updated: 5 June 2026
JCPC/2026/0005
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EMPLOYMENT
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in refusing to grant leave to the appellant to seek judicial review against the respondent of a decision not to re-enlist the appellant as a constable in the Jamaica Constabulary Force?
Last updated: 5 June 2026
JCPC/2026/0012
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EMPLOYMENT
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Did the General Legal Council and Court of Appeal err in finding the appellant attorney, who acted for the vendor of a property, owed a duty of care the property’s prospective purchasers and negligently breached it?
Last updated: 5 June 2026
JCPC/2026/0010
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Should s13 of the Forfeiture of Money etc. in Civil Proceedings (Guernsey) Law 2007 be interpreted so as to impose on the applicant for a forfeiture order an obligation to demonstrate a causal nexus between identified or identifiable acts of unlawful conduct and the funds sought to be forfeited?
Last updated: 5 June 2026
JCPC/2026/0020
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Can an appellate court make findings of fact, evaluative judgments, and proportionality assessments for itself under article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights (“ECHR”)? Was article 6 ECHR breached in this case by delay and/or apparent bias? What is the correct approach to be applied by a court and a regulator in determining whether an individual is a “fit and proper person” to perform regulated functions?
Linked casesLast updated: 5 June 2026
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