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JCPC/2026/0053
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INSOLVENCY
Permission to Appeal grantedCase summary:How should Joint Liquidators of a digital assets exchange company treat unclaimed digital assets deposited by customers?
Last updated: 30 October 2026
JCPC/2026/0070
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ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING
Appeal issuedCase summary:(1) Is Designated Activity 8(c) in the Schedule to the Certificate of Environmental Clearance (Designated Activities) Order too ambiguous to be enforced? (2) Does the Environmental Commission have the power to grant declaratory relief under Section 81(3) of the Environmental Management Act, Chapter 35:05? (3) Did the Environmental Commission lack jurisdiction to order an Administrative Civil Assessment pursuant to Section 66(1)(d) of the Environmental Management Act, Chapter 35:05?
Last updated: 30 October 2026
JCPC/2026/0024
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CONSTITUTION
Appeal issuedCase summary:Must Section 1 of the Constitution of Mauritius be construed to encompass a constitutional principle for the holding of regular and periodic local government elections, either expressly or by necessary implication? If so, does a proper construction impose limits on the National Assembly of Mauritius’s legislative power as regards a statutory executive power to postpone local government elections?
Last updated: 30 October 2026
JCPC/2026/0058
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COURT PROCEDURE
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in holding that illiquid shares could not be used as security for costs in lieu of a cash sum?
Last updated: 30 October 2026
JCPC/2025/0083
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CONSTITUTION
Hearing listedCase summary:Has the Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago breached the constitutional rights of the appellant as a victim of crime, by failing to prosecute the individual accused of assaulting her within a reasonable period of time?
Last updated: 29 October 2026
JCPC/2024/0068
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Hearing listedCase summary:Whether the mandatory testing regime 1. breached the Appellant's constitutional right to not be searched without his consent; 2. were not based on lawful authority; 3. breached the principle of legality.
Last updated: 29 October 2026
JCPC/2026/0017
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INSOLVENCY
Hearing listedCase summary:(1) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to hold that the loss to an insolvent company caused by preferential payments made to a creditor includes the loss suffered by its general body of creditors? (2) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to order the director of the company to pay equitable compensation for such loss, in circumstances where the director had not obtained any profits by the breach of their fiduciary duty? (3) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to award pre-judgment interest at 5% per annum running from 29 November 2009?
Last updated: 29 October 2026
JCPC/2025/0086
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CRIME
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Are the Appellants’ convictions and sentences for murder unsafe in circumstances of an alleged plea deal on the part of an accomplice whose evidence was uncorroborated?
Last updated: 29 October 2026
JCPC/2025/0085
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CONSTITUTION
Judgment given[2026] UKPC 35Case summary:Was the Court of Appeal correct to set aside the trial judge’s findings that the Appellant’s right to property had been deprived under section 4(a) of the Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago? If so, was the Court of Appeal entitled to reduce the Appellant’s costs of the appeal by 50%?
Last updated: 29 October 2026
JCPC/2025/0094
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VETERINARY SURGEONS
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Whether the sanction imposed by the Respondent on the Appellant was disproportionate and not founded on sound and lawful reasoning.
Last updated: 28 October 2026
JCPC/2024/0095
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Whether the Court of Appeal erred in its interpretation of the trial judge’s findings and whether it improperly made inferences not supported by the trial judge’s judgment.
Last updated: 28 October 2026
JCPC/2025/0119
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Was the appellant entitled to terminate the contract for the sale of a parcel of land without making time of the essence?
Last updated: 27 October 2026
JCPC/2024/1004
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EMPLOYMENT
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in upholding the Industrial Court’s ruling that the Appellant is the successor to British West Indian Airways and therefore bound to recognise the Respondent as one of its recognised majority unions under the Industrial Relations Act?
Last updated: 27 October 2026
JCPC/2025/0091
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INSOLVENCY
Awaiting JudgmentCase 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: 27 October 2026
JCPC/2025/0107
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Is the claimant entitled to an order vesting in him title to the land owned by the second defendant, based on the claimant’s occupation of the land for over 16 years?
Last updated: 27 October 2026
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