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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
JCPC/2026/0044
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Appeal issuedCase summary:Last updated: 5 June 2026
JCPC/2026/0016
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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
JCPC/2026/0006
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Whether the Court of Appeal erred in: (1) not treating as inadmissible the evidence found in searching the appellant’s cell phone; (2) holding that no jury direction had to be given on accomplice evidence; and (3) not requiring direction to the jury in respect of the transcript given to them, such that the appellant’s conviction is unsafe.
Last updated: 5 June 2026
JCPC/2025/0121
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Did the trial judge adequately address certain inconsistencies in the victim’s identification evidence or did they otherwise inappropriately direct the jury rendering the appellant’s conviction unsafe?
Last updated: 5 June 2026
JCPC/2025/0123
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase 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: 5 June 2026
JCPC/2026/0003
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COURT PROCEDURE
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase 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: 5 June 2026
JCPC/2026/0007
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase 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: 5 June 2026
JCPC/2024/0085
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TORT
Judgment scheduledCase summary:Whether the Court of Appeal erred by: (1) Holding the Appellants do not have a statutory right of appeal to the Privy Council. (2) Ruling that Mrs Bethel was unlawfully detained between 1 am and 3 pm on Saturday 13 December 2014; (3) Ruling that the State (or some of the appellants) are vicariously liable for the acts of Mr Bastian.
Last updated: 5 June 2026
JCPC/2026/0015
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FAMILY
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase 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: 5 June 2026
JCPC/2022/0018
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CONSTITUTIONS
Judgment givenCase 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: 5 June 2026
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