Permission to Appeal - January and February 2023
| Case Name | Justices | PTA | Reasons given |
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| Anthony Callender and another (Respondents) v Monica Callender and another (Appellants) (Trinidad and Tobago)
JCPC 2022/0061 Neutral Citation Number: Civil Appeal No 022 of 2020 |
Lord Briggs Lord Kitchin Lord Leggatt |
Refused 30 January 2023 |
Permission ot appeal be refused because the application does not raise an arguable point of law or a point of law of general public importance. |
| Nelson Louis Dovic Nabab (Appellant) v The State of Mauritius (Respondent) (Mauritius)
JCPC 2022/0091 Neutral Citation Number: 2022 SCJ 286 |
Lord Briggs Lord Kitchin Lord Leggatt |
Refused 30 January 2023 |
Permission to appeal be refused because there is no risk that a serious miscarriage of justice has occurred. |
| Soocheeta and others (Appellants) v Bundun and others (Respondents) (Mauritius)
JCPC 2022/0102 Neutral Citation Number: SCR1560-6B/4/19 |
Lord Reed Lord Burrows Lord Stephens |
Refused 16 February 2023 |
Permission to appeal be refused because the appeal is devoid of merit and has no prospect of success. |
| 3G Technologies Ltd and 2 others (Appellants) v Maharaj and another (Respondents) (Trinidad and Tobago)
JCPC 2022/0110 |
Lord Hodge Lord Sales Lady Rose |
Refused 16 February 2023 |
Permission to appeal be refused because the application does not raise an arguable point of law, and in any event no point of law of general public importance. |
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| Nyron Erickson (Appellant) v United States of America (Respondent) (British Virgin Islands)
JCPC 2022/0090 Neutral Citation Number: BVIHCR 2021/0017 |
Lord Reed Lord Burrows Lord Stephens |
Refused 15 February 2023 |
Permission to appeal should be refused because the appeal does not raise an arguable point of law. |
| AB (Appellant) v C (Respondent) (Cayman Islands)
JCPC 2022/0082 |
Lord Hodge Lord Burrows Lord Richards |
Refused 15 February 2023 |
Permission to appeal should be refused because the application does not raise an arguable point of law. |
| Gary Thurston (Appellant) v The King (Respondent) (Bahamas)
JCPC 2022/0101 Neutral Citation Number: SCCrApp. No. 11 of 2020 |
Lord Lloyd-Jones Lord Hamblen Lord Richards |
Refused 15 February 2023 |
Permission to appeal be refused. The application for permission to appeal against conviction is inadmissable because the appeal against conviction was abandoned before the Court of Appeal. In any event, there are no arguable grounds of appeal against conviction or sentence and therefore there is no risk that a serious miscarriage of justice has occurred in this case. |
| Neil Ingraham (Appellant) v The King (Respondent) (Bahamas)
JCPC 2022/0095 Neutral Citation Number: SCCR APP 173 of 2019 |
Lord Lloyd-Jones Lord Hamblen Lord Richards |
Refused 15 February 2023 |
Permission to appeal be refused because there is no risk that a serious miscarriage of justice in relation to either conviction or sentence has occurred in this case. |
| Benjamin McPhee (Appellant) v The King (Respondent) (Bahamas)
JCPC 2022/0096 Neutral Citation Number: SCCR App 232 of 2014 |
Lord Lloyd-Jones Lord Hamblen Lord Richards |
Refused 15 February 2023 |
Permission to appeal be refused. The application for permission to appeal against conviction is inadmissible beacuse the applicant did not appeal against conviction to the Court of Appeal. In any event, the application does not disclose any arguable grounds of appeal against conviction and therefore there is no risk that a serious miscarriage of justice has occurred in this case. |
| Rashid Dean (Appellant) v The King (Respondent) (Bahamas)
JCPC 2022/0097 Neutral Citation Number: SCCr App. No. 43 or 2014 |
Lord Lloyd-Jones Lord Hamblen Lord Richards |
Refused 15 February 2023 |
Permission to appeal be refused because there is no risk that a serious miscarriage of justice has occurred in this case. |
| Dervinique Edwards (Appellant) v The King (Respondent) (Bahamas)
JCPC 2022/0088 Neutral Citation Number: 144 of 2020 |
Lord Lloyd-Jones Lord Hamblen Lord Richards |
Refused 15 February 2023 |
Permission to appeal should be refused because ther eis no risk that a serious miscarriage of justice in relation to either conviction or sentence has occurred in this case. |
| Jack Simmons (Appellant) v The King (Respondent) (Bahamas)
JCPC 2022/0094 |
Lord Lloyd-Jones Lord Hamblen Lord Richards |
Refused 15 February 2023 |
Permission to appeal should be refused because there is no risk that a serious miscarriage of justice in relation to either conviction or sentence has occurred in this case. |
| Edney Burrows (Appellant) v The King (Respondent) (Bahamas)
JCPC 2022/0093 |
Lord Lloyd-Jones Lord Hamblen Lord Richards |
Refused 15 February 2023 |
Permission to appeal should be refused. There are no arguable grounds of appeal against the refusal of the Court of Appeal to reopen the appeal. The substantive application for permission to appeal is long out of time and there are no grounds for extension of time. In any event the application does not disclose any arguable grounds of appeal against conviction and therefore there is no risk that a serious miscarriage of justice has occurred in this case. |
| Karen Allen and 2 other (Respondents) v Registrar of Companies and another (Appellants) (Montserrat)
JCPC 2022/0076 Neutral Citation Number: MNICHCVAP 2019/0006 |
Lord Lloyd-Jones Lord Kitchin Lord Sales |
Granted 15 February 2023 |
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| Karen Allen and 2 others (Appellants) v Registrar of Companies and another (Respondents) No 2 (Montserrat)
JCPC 2022/0098 Neutral Citation Number: MNICHCVAP 2019/0006 |
Lord Lloyd-Jones Lord Kitchin Lord Sales |
Refused 15 February 2023 |
Permission to appeal should be refused because the application does not raise an arguable point of law. |
| Ahmad Hamad Algosaibi and Brothers Company (Appellant) v Saad Investments Finance Company No 5 Ltd (In Official Liquidation) (Respondent) (Cayman Islands)
JCPC 2022/0085 Neutral Citation Number: CICA (Civil) 15 of 2018 (formerly FDS 54 of 2009 (ASCJ)) |
Lord Lloyd-Jones Lord Kitchin Lord Sales |
Refused 15 February 2023 |
Permission to appeal should be refused because the application does not raise an arguable point of law. It is the practice of the Board to decline to hear appeals against concurrent findings of fact in the courts below, save in exceptional circumstances which do not exist in this case. Accordingly, the application is an abuse of process, is devoid of merit and has no prospect of success. |
| Shawn Campbell and 3 others (Appellants) v The King (Respondent) (Jamaica)
JCPC 2020/0088 Neutral Citation Number [2020] MCA Crim 10 |
Lord Lloyd-Jones Lord Kitchin Lady Rose |
Refused 15 February 2023 |
Permission to appeal be refused. |
| 1Globe Capital LLC (Appellant) v Sinovac Biotech Ltd (Respondent) (Antigua and Barbuda)
JCPC 2022/0041 Neutral Citation Number: ANUHCVAP2019/0005 |
Lord Briggs Lord Hamblen Lord Leggatt |
Granted 15 February 2023 |
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| Nardis Maynard (Appellant) v The King (Respondent) (St Christopher and Nevis)
JCPC 2022/0077 Neutral Citation Number: SKBHCRAP2004/0012 |
Lord Briggs Lord Hamblen Lord Leggatt |
Granted 15 February 2023 |
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| Gibson Raphael (Appellant) v The King (Respondent) (Bahamas)
JCPC 2022/0078 Neutral Citation Number: SCCrim App No. 317 of 2014 |
Lord Briggs Lord Hamblen Lord Leggatt |
Refused 15 February 2023 |
Permission to appeal be refused because there is no risk that a serious miscarriage of justice has occurred in this case. |
| Kenyatta Boynes (Appellant) v The King (Respondent) (British Virgin Islands)
JCPC 2022/0065 Neutral Citation Number: BVIHCRAP2017/0001 |
Lord Briggs Lord Hamblen Lord Leggatt |
Refused 15 February 2023 |
Permission to appeal should be refused because there is no risk that a serious miscarriage of justice has occurred in this case. |
| Julian Washington (Appellant) v The King (Respondent) (Bermuda)
JCPC 2022/0046 |
Lord Briggs Lord Kitchin Lord Leggatt |
Granted 15 February 2023 |
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| Paul F Major (Appellant) v First Caribbean International Bank (Bahamas) Ltd (Respondent) (Bahamas)
JCPC 2022/0089 Neutral Citation Number: SCCCiv App. No. 77 of 2021 |
Lord Briggs Lord Kitchin Lord Leggatt |
Refused 15 February 2023 |
Permission to appeal should be refused because the application does not raise an arguable point of law or a point of law of general public importance. There is no appeal as of right and the appeal is wholly without merit. |
| Ricardo Farrington (Appellant) v The King (Respondent) (Bahamas)
JCPC 2021/0117 Neutral Citation Number: SCC Cr. App. N. 46 of 2013 |
Lord Kitchin Lord Hamblen Lord Burrows |
Granted 15 February 2023 |
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