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Permission to Appeal

Permission to Appeal - July 2022

Permission to Appeal - July 2022
Case Name Justices PTA Reasons given
Colin Simmons (Appellant) v Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago (Respondent) (Trinidad and Tobago)
JCPC 2021/0112
Lord Reed
Lord Burrows
Lady Rose
Refused
18 July 2022
Permission to appeal be refused because the application does not raise an arguable point of law.
Maharaj 2002 Ltd (Appellant) v Pan American Life Insurance Company of Trinidad and Tobago (Respondent) (Trinidad and Tobago)
JCPC 2021/0078
Neutral Citation Number Civil Appeal No P078 of 2017
Lord Reed
Lord Burrows
Lady Rose
Refused
18 July 2022
Permission to appeal be refused because the application does not raise an arguable point of law. The appeal is devoid of merit.
Mission and Pastoral Measure 2011 – All Saints Spring Park Parochial Church Council
JCPC 2021/0114
Lord Hodge
Lord Sales
Lady Rose
Granted/Refused
14 July 2022
Permission to appeal be granted on grounds 1) indirect discrimination, 2) public sector equality duty under section 149 of the Equality Act 2010 and 3) relevance of race inequality to the scheme’s purpose
Permission to appeal is refused on Ground 4 (mismanagement)
Wayne Lum Young (Appellant) v Scotiabank Trinidad and Tobago Ltd (Respondent) (Trinidad and Tobago)
JCPC 2021/0072
Lord Briggs
Lord Leggatt
Lord Stephens
Refused
18 July 2022
Permission to appeal be refused because the application does not raise an arguable point of law of general public importance.
Kevin Ramsaran (Appellant) v Brandon Joseph PC #19339 (Respondent) (Trinidad and Tobago)
JCPC 2022/0032
Neutral Citation Number Mag App S005/2020
Lord Briggs
Lord Leggatt
Lord Stephens
Refused
18 July 2022
Permission to appeal be refused because there is no risk that a serious miscarriage of justice has occurred in this case. There is no constitutional claim.
Sonomed Holdings Ltd and 2 others (Appellants) v Royal Bank (RBC) Trinidad Ltd and 3 others (Respondents) (Trinidad and Tobago)
JCPC 2021/0094
Neutral Citation Number P-346 of 2020
Lord Briggs
Lord Leggatt
Lord Stephens
Refused
18 July 2022
Permission to appeal be refused because the application has no appeal as of right and does not raise an arguable point of law.
Jean Steven St Pierre (Appellant) v The State (Respondent) (Mauritius)
JCPC 2021/0080
Neutral Citation Number [2021] SCJ 176
Lord Kitchin
Lord Hamblen
Lord Burrows
Refused
18 July 2022
Permission to appeal be refused because there is no risk that a serious miscarriage of justice has occurred; and the proposed appeal is devoid of merit and has no prospect of success.
In the following cases, the advice which the Board proposes to give to Her Majesty is as indicated below
Showa Holdings Co Ltd (Appellant) v Nicholas Gronow and John Ayres (as Receivers of APF Group Co Ltd) and another (Respondents) (British Virgin Islands)
JCPC 2021/0086
Neutral Citation Number BVI HCMAP [2020] 0031
Lord Reed
Lord Burrows
Lady Rose
Refused
19 July 2022
Permission to appeal should be refused as the appeal does not raise an arguable point of law.
Hermitage One Ltd (Appellant) v Heda Airlines Ltd (Respondent) (Isle of Man)
JCPC 2021/0115
Lord Reed
Lord Burrows
Lady Rose
Refused
19 July 2022
Permission to appeal should be refused because the application does not raise an arguable point of law of general public importance.
John Mussington and another (Appellants) v Development Control Authority and 2 others (Respondents) (Antigua and Barbuda)
JCPC 2021/0116
Neutral Citation Number ANUHCVAP [2020] 0005
Lord Reed
Lord Burrows
Lady Rose
Granted
19 July 2022
N/A
Chen Mei–huan (Appellant) v Victory Success Holdings Ltd (Respondent) (British Virgin Islands)
JCPC 2021/0073
Lord Hodge
Lord Sales
Lady Rose
Refused
19 July 2022
Permission to appeal should be refused because the appeal does not raise an arguable point of law.
Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska (Appellant) v Vladimir Anatolevich Chernukhin and another (Respondents) (Jersey)
JCPC 2021/0103
Lord Hodge
Lord Sales
Lady Rose
Refused
19 July 2022
Permission to appeal should be refused because the application does not raise an arguable point of law.
Camilla de Bourbon des Deux Siciles (Appellant) v BNP Paribas Jersey Trust Corporation Ltd (Respondent) (Jersey)
JCPC 2021/0081
[2021] JCA 163
Lord Briggs
Lord Leggatt
Lord Stephens
Refused
19 July 2022
Permission to appeal should be refused because the application does not raise an arguable point of law. The self–incrimination point, and the prison in default point were not run in the court below. It would not be appropriate to consider them for the first time before the Board.
JJW Ltd (in liquidation) (Appellant) v Aareal Bank AG and another (Respondents) (Guernsey)
JCPC 2021/0083
[2021] GCA 021
Lord Briggs
Lord Leggatt
Lord Stephens
Refused
19 July 2022
Permission to appeal should be refused because the application does not raise an arguable point of law of general public importance.
Freeport Container Port Ltd (Appellant) v Jermaine Campbell (Respondent) (Bahamas)
JCPC 2021/0111
Lord Briggs
Lord Leggatt
Lord Stephens
Refused
19 July 2022
Permission to appeal be refused. If (which the Board does not decide) there is an appeal as of right, it is devoid of merit. There are concurrent findings in the court below that the writ was issued in time.
Arnage Holdings Ltd and 3 others (Appellants) v Walkers (a firm) (Respondent) (Cayman Islands)
JCPC 2022/0006
Neutral Citation Number CICA (Civil) Appeal 5 of 2020 (FSD 105 of 2014 (DDJ))
Lord Briggs
Lord Leggatt
Lord Stephens
Refused
19 July 2022
Permission to appeal should be refused because the application does not raise an arguable point of law.
Edwardo Ferguson aka Kofhe Goodman (Appellant) v The Queen (Respondent) (Bahamas)
JCPC 2022/0021
Lord Kitchin
Lord Hamblen
Lord Burrows
Refused
19 July 2022
Permission to appeal be refused because there is no risk that a serious miscarriage of Justice has occurred; and the proposed appeal is devoid of merit and has no prospect of success.
Attorney General (Appellant) v Jonathan Reid and 3 others (Respondents) (Bahamas)
JCPC 2021/0095
Lord Kitchin
Lord Hamblen
Lord Burrows
Granted
19 July 2022
N/A
Alexander Sweeting (Appellant) v The Queen (Respondent) (Bahamas)
JCPC 2022/0003
Lord Kitchin
Lord Hamblen
Lord Burrows
Refused
19 July 2022
Permission to appeal be refused because there is no risk that a serious miscarriage of justice has occurred; and the proposed appeal is devoid of merit and has no prospect of success.
Omar Archer (Appellant) v Commissioner of Police and another (Respondents) (Bahamas)
JCPC 2021/0107
Neutral Citation Number SCCivApp. No 84 of 2020
Lord Kitchin
Lord Hamblen
Lord Burrows
Refused
19 July 2022
Permission to appeal be refused because none of the proposed grounds of appeal raises an arguable point of law and each is devoid of merit and has no real prospect of success.