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JCPC/2025/0015
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TAX
Hearing listedCase summary:(1) Is an arrangement under which the appellant obtained insurance from an insurer who reinsured the risk with an entity related to the appellant, such that 95% of the premiums were ultimately received by that related entity, a transaction falling within the meaning of section 23 of the Income Tax Act, Chapter 435 (“ITA”)? (2) Is the appellant required to pay withholding tax on the premiums received by its related entity pursuant to section 66 of the ITA? (3) Are profits made by the appellant from hire-purchase agreements taxable at the time the agreements were entered into or upon receipt of the hirer’s instalments under section 9 of the ITA?
Last updated: 27 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0007
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COURT PROCEDURE
Hearing listedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in striking out the Appellant’s appeal for want of prosecution and/or abuse of process?
Last updated: 27 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0020
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Appeal issuedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in ruling that neither clause 11.4 nor the common law relating to public policy meant that the Icebreaker policies were void or unenforceable or otherwise provided EIC with a defence to the claims by policyholders?
Linked casesLast updated: 27 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0029
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EMPLOYMENT
Appeal issuedCase summary:Does the definition of “Annual Basic Salary” in the employment contract between the Appellant and the Respondent (and the annex to that contract) violate the End of the Year Gratuity Act 2001 (“EYGA”)?
Last updated: 27 March 2026
JCPC/2024/0085
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TORT
Hearing listedCase 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: 27 March 2026
JCPC/2023/0087
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CONSTITUTION
Hearing listedCase summary:Is the Appellant’s claim against a magistrate under section 6 of the Public Officers’ Protection Act 1957 barred by a principle of judicial immunity and/or the Mauritian Civil Code of Procedure?
Last updated: 27 March 2026
JCPC/2023/0110
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Hearing listedCase summary:Were the lower courts correct to find that the appellant had failed to prove that a prosecution against him for murder, in which the charges were dismissed, was commenced maliciously?
Last updated: 27 March 2026
JCPC/2018/0060
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VETERINARY SURGEONS
Judgment givenCase summary:(1) Whether there were procedural failings during the appellant’s hearing before the Disciplinary Committee of the respondent (“the Committee”). (2) Whether the Committee’s findings, in particular that the appellant had acted dishonestly, were properly made.
Last updated: 27 March 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: 27 March 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: 27 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0088
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NEGLIGENCE
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Did the trial judge err in dismissing LBEP’s application to permit five of its members to be added as parties to the claim and allowed to represent La Brea Environment Protectors' (“LBEP”) remaining members? Did the Court of Appeal err in upholding the trial judge’s ruling?
Last updated: 27 March 2026
JCPC/2023/0067
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:(i) Was the Court of Appeal wrong because it did not overturn the decision of the trial judge to strike out Mr Hosein’s constitutional claim on the basis of various factors, in particular the availability of a parallel remedy and the delay in bringing proceedings? (ii) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to conclude there was no evidence of apparent bias on the part of the trial judge?
Last updated: 26 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0087
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EMPLOYMENT
Hearing listedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in finding that the respondent did not commit an industrial relations offence under section 40(1) of the Industrial Relations Act Chap 88:01?
Last updated: 26 March 2026
JCPC/2024/1004
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EMPLOYMENT
Hearing listedCase 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: 26 March 2026
JCPC/2025/0113
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TAX
Hearing listedCase summary:On a proper construction of s24 Income Tax Act, is a person allowed to compute annual allowances in respect of capital expenditure which it has incurred in any year and in any amount which it deems fit (subject to maximum thresholds set out in the Income Tax Regulations)?
Last updated: 26 March 2026
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