Current cases
Cases only appear here a few weeks before the appeal is due to be heard by the JCPC.
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| Case ID | Case name | Jurisdiction | Case summary | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JCPC 2021/0043 | Flora Moses (adminixstratrix pendente lite of the estate of Jude Moses aka Julie Moses, deceased) (Respondent) v Selwyn Moses (Appellant) (Trinidad and Tobago) | Court of Appeal of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago | 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 | Full case details |
| JCPC 2021/0077 | Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (Appellant) v Maritime Life (Caribbean) Ltd (Respondent) (Trinidad and Tobago) | Court of Appeal of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago | Whether the Central Bank’s decision to approve the sale of certain Traditional Insurance Portfolios was a purely commercial transaction which was not amendable to judicial review. | Full case details |
| JCPC 2020/0058 | Glory Trading Holding Ltd (Appellant) v Global Skynet International Ltd and another (Respondents) (Anguilla) | Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (Anguilla) | Whether Global Skynet is the ultimate beneficial owner of Skynet and whether a transfer of all of the issued shares in Skynet to Mr Andrei Kravchuk should be set aside. | Full case details |
| JCPC 2019/0088 | Brelsford and others (Appellants) v Providence Estate Ltd and another (Respondents) (Montserrat) | Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (Montserrat) | The facts and issues in this case will be published, in due course. | Full case details |
| JCPC 2018/0096 | Roopchand (Appellant) v Tesheira (The Executrix of the Estate of Russell Tesheira) (Respondent) (Trinidad and Tobago) | Court of Appeal of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago | Whether the Court of Appeal was correct to uphold the trial judge’s findings as to causation and quantum (among other matters). | Full case details |
| JCPC 2021/0075 | CMK BWI Ltd and 7 others (Appellants) v Attorney General of the Turks and Caicos Islands (on behalf of the Crown and Government of the Turks and Caicos Islands) (Respondent) (Turks and Caicos Islands) | Court of Appeal for the Turks and Caicos Islands | Whether the Respondent was in breach of contract by not executing the "Downtown Restoration Lease" to the Plaintiffs at a peppercorn rent. | Full case details |
| JCPC 2021/0045 | Robert Gormandy and 2 others (Appellants) v Trinidad and Tobago Housing Development Corporation (Respondent) (Trinidad and Tobago) | Court of Appeal of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago | The issues in this appeal relate to whether the courts below were wrong to find that Mr Gormandy had not established an entitlement to land by adverse possession. | Full case details |
| JCPC 2019/0100 | Jean-Rony Jean Charles (Appellant) v The Honourable Carl Bethel (in his capacity as Attorney General of the Bahamas) and 3 others (Respondents) (Bahamas) | Court of Appeal of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas | The facts and issues in this case will be published, in due course. | Full case details |
| JCPC 2020/0085 | Sancus Financial Holdings Ltd and others (Appellants) v Holm and another (Respondents) (British Virgin Islands) | Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands) | Did the courts below wrongly decide that the appellants and respondents had entered into a contract, and that the appellants had acted in breach of it? | Full case details |
| JCPC 2020/0041 | Katic (Appellant) v Republic of Croatia (Respondent) | The Supreme Court of Gibraltar | The appeal concerns a challenge to the validity of a European Arrest Warrant issued for the Appellant in February 2019 in Croatia. | Full case details |
| JCPC 2019/0101 | Michael Paul Chen-Young and others (Appellants) v Eagle Merchant Bank Jamaica Ltd and 3 others (Respondents) (Jamaica) | Court of Appeal of Jamaica | Whether the Court of Appeal has jurisdiction to determine an allegation of breach of constitutional rights on grounds of delay in circumstances where that allegation was made for the first time during the course of the appeal. | Full case details |
| JCPC 2020/0030 | Dawn Satterswaite and 2 others (Respondents) v Bobbette Smalling (Appellant) (Jamaica) | Court of Appeal of Jamaica | Whether certain items seized pursuant to a warrant from the premises of the Respondent, an attorney-at-law, were outside the scope of the warrant or covered by legal professional privilege (LPP), such that their unsealing and examination by Jamaica’s Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) should not have been permitted. | Full case details |
| JCPC 2020/0015 | Emlyn Quashie (Administrator Pendente Lite of the Estate of the Deceased Beresford Solomon) (Appellant) v Ayana Solomon (Respondent) (Trinidad & Tobago) | Court of Appeal of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago | Whether the Court of Appeal erred in allowing Ms Solomon to enforce an historic consent order made in settlement of matrimonial proceedings between her deceased parents in order to obtain title to a property. | Full case details |
| JCPC 2022/0002 | Chandra Silochan and another (Appellants) v Rickie Cedeno (Respondent) (Trinidad and Tobago) | Court of Appeal of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago | Whether the Appellants’ convictions should stand; in the alternative, whether the Appellants’ sentences should stand. | Full case details |
| JCPC 2022/0034 | Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago (Appellant) v Akili Charles (Respondent) No 2 (Trinidad and Tobago) | Court of Appeal of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago | The central issue is whether section 5(1) of the Bail Act 1994 is inconsistent with the Constitution and therefore susceptible to being struck down. | Full case details |
| JCPC 2021/0003 | Sagicor Bank Jamaica Ltd (Respondent) v YP Seaton (Appellant) (Jamaica) | Court of Appeal of Jamaica | Whether the Court of Appeal erred in finding that the Appellants were due repayment of JMD 9,200,000 rather than JMD 15,254,583.69 | Full case details |
| JCPC 2020/0026 | Jack Austin Warner (Appellant) v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago | Court of Appeal of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago | Is the Extradition (United States of America) Order unlawful and ultra vires the Extradition (Commonwealth and Foreign Territories) Act? | Full case details |
| JCPC 2021/0104 | Jesus Alexander Rodriguez Martinez (by his kin and next friend Luisa Del Valle Martinez Hernandez and another (Appellants) v Chief Immigration Officer (Respondent) (Trinidad & Tobago) | Court of Appeal of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago | Whether the Appellant’s are entitled to a Writ of Habeas Corpus in respect of their ongoing immigration detention. | Full case details |
| JCPC 2020/0031 | A&A Mechanical Contractors and Company Ltd (Appellant) v Petroleum Company of Trinidad & Tobago (Respondents) (Trinidad & Tobago) | Court of Appeal of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago | Whether the Court of Appeal erred in allowing PCTT’s appeal including (i) in finding that the letter of 23 June 2008 was without prejudice or inadmissible, (ii) in its approach to other evidence, and / or (iii) in failing to make an award with respect to interest? | Full case details |
| JCPC 2018/0045 | Smith and another (Appellants) v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago and others (Respondents) (Trinidad and Tobago) | Court of Appeal of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago | Whether the Court of Appeal was entitled to conclude that the Chief Magistrate’s ruling was not vitiated by the appearance of bias or by the deprivation of Smith and Gomes’ right to due process and a fair hearing. | Full case details |
| JCPC 2020/0065 | Grand View Private Trust Company and another (Respondents) v Wen-Young Wong and others (Appellants) (Bermuda) | Court of Appeal for Bermuda | Was the amendment of a Bermudan trust’s beneficiaries and the transfer of the trust’s assets to another entity by its trustee (i) beyond the scope of the trustee’s powers, a fraud on the trustees’ powers or otherwise invalid, or (ii) in violation of the terms of the trust deed, so as to render the purported amendment and transfer void? | Full case details |
| JCPC 2020/0064 | Grand View Private Trust Company and another (Respondents) v Wen-Young Wong and others (Appellants) (Bermuda) | Court of Appeal for Bermuda | Was the amendment of a Bermudan trust’s beneficiaries and the transfer of the trust’s assets to another entity by its trustee (i) beyond the scope of the trustee’s powers, a fraud on the trustees’ powers or otherwise invalid, or (ii) in violation of the terms of the trust deed, so as to render the purported amendment and transfer void? | Full case details |
| JCPC 2018/0096 | Roopchand (Appellant) v Tesheira (The Executrix of the Estate of Russell Tesheira) (Respondent) (Trinidad and Tobago) | Court of Appeal of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago | Whether the Court of Appeal was correct to uphold the trial judge’s findings as to causation and quantum (among other matters). | Full case details |
| JCPC 2018/0072 | Gulf View Medical Centre Ltd (Appellant) v Tesheira (The Executrix of the Estate of Russell Teshiera) (Respondent) (Trinidad and Tobago) | Court of Appeal of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago | Whether the Court of Appeal was correct to uphold the trial judge’s findings as to causation and quantum (among other matters). | Full case details |
| JCPC 2021/0022 | Stubbs (Appellant) v The Queen (Respondent) (Bahamas) | Court of Appeal of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas | Whether the Court of Appeal's order is unconstitutional. | Full case details |
| JCPC 2017/0090 | Jogie (Appellant) v Sealey (Respondent) (Trinidad and Tobago) | Court of Appeal of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago | Whether the Respondent was a tenant within the meaning of Land Tenants (Security of Tenure) Act ("the Act") and whether she had validly served a notice to renew her late mother’s lease. | Full case details |
| JCPC 2020/0024 | Estate of Dame Bernice Lake QC (Deceased) and another (Respondents) v Attorney General of Anguilla (Appellant) (Anguilla) | Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (Anguilla) | How much compensation should the Government of Anguilla have to pay for compulsorily acquiring land to expand Wallblake Airport? | Full case details |
| JCPC 2020/0023 | Estate of Dame Bernice Lake QC (Deceased) (Appellant) v Attorney General of Anguilla (Respondent) (Anguilla) | Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (Anguilla) | How much compensation should the Government of Anguilla have to pay for compulsorily acquiring land to expand Wallblake Airport? | Full case details |
| JCPC 2019/0089 | Primeo Fund (in Official Liquidation) (Appellant) v Bank of Bermuda (Cayman) Ltd and another (Respondents) (Cayman Islands) | Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands | This appeal concerns claims brought by the appellant, Primeo Fund (In Official Liquidation) (Primeo), against the respondents for breach of their contractual duties. | Full case details |
| JCPC 2021/0002 | ITG Ltd and others (Respondents) v Fort Trustees Ltd and another (Appellants) (Guernsey) | Guernsey Court of Appeal | Should the assets of an insolvent trust be distributed: on a pari passu basis between current and former trustees or between former and current trustees on the basis that their rights rank according to time? | Full case details |
| JCPC 2019/0119 | Equity Trust (Jersey) Ltd (Respondent) v Halabi (in his capacity as Executor of the Estate of the Late Madam Intisar Nouri) (Appellant) (Jersey) | Court of Appeal of Jersey | Whether the claim of a former trustee of a Jersey law trust takes priority over the claims of successor trustees on a first in time basis and trust creditors and what is the status of a trustee’s right of indemnity and associated equitable lien in relation to a trust governed by Jersey law. | Full case details |
| JCPC 2019/0050 | Powell (Appellant) v Spence (Respondent) (Jamaica) | The Court of Appeal of Jamaica | 1) Whether proceedings for forfeiture a nullity as Appellant filed a 'notice' instead of a 'plaint'. | Full case details |
| JCPC 2018/0102 | Smith (Appellant) v Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (Respondent) | The Disciplinary Committee of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons | (1) Whether it was disproportionate and excessive for the Disciplinary Committee of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (the "Disciplinary Committee") to have directed that the appellant’s name be removed from the Register of Veterinary Surgeons. | Full case details |
| JCPC 2019/0023 | Forbes and others (Appellants) v Scotiabank (Bahamas) Ltd (Respondent) (Bahamas) | The Court of Appeal of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas | Whether the amount of damages awarded to the Appellants was correct. | Full case details |
| JCPC 2016/0094 | Robin's Nest Interiors (Mauritius) Limited (Appellant) v Director General Mauritius Revenue Authority and Others (Respondents) | The Supreme Court of Mauritius | Whether the decision of the first respondent can be challenged by way of judicial review or whether the taxpayer’s remedy is limited to an appeal before the Assessment Review Committee (and thus whether the Supreme Court was correct to refuse leave on this basis)? | Full case details |
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