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JCPC/2023/0008
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Hearing listedCase summary:(1) Was the agreement for the sale of an interest in land binding and enforceable? (2) Following that determination, what is the appropriate relief?
Last updated: 22 January 2025
JCPC/2024/0044
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Hearing listedCase summary:Is the International Co-operation (Protection from Liability) (Jersey) Law 2018 a disproportionate restriction on the right of access to the court and therefore incompatible with article 6(1) of the European Convention of Human Rights?
Last updated: 22 January 2025
JCPC/2019/0023
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COMMERCIAL
Awaiting judgmentCase summary:Whether the amount of damages awarded to the Appellants was correct.
Last updated: 20 June 2024
JCPC/2018/0102
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VETERINARY SURGEONS
Awaiting judgmentCase summary: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. Whether the Disciplinary Committee’s findings of disgraceful conduct in relation to certain charges against the appellant were unjustified on the facts and unduly censorious.
Last updated: 20 June 2024
JCPC/2021/0068
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COMMERCIAL
Awaiting judgmentCase summary:(1) - (2) Was the Court of Appeal correct to accept as proper the findings of fact made by the judge? Can the concurrent findings be reversed? (3) - (5) Was the Court of Appeal correct in its findings under the Companies Act 1995?
Last updated: 20 June 2024
JCPC/2022/0092
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INTERNATIONAL
Awaiting judgmentCase summary:Are costs orders made by the English High Court in relation to proceedings to enforce a foreign arbitral award registrable in Gibraltar?
Last updated: 20 June 2024
JCPC/2022/0074
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COMMERCIAL
Awaiting judgmentCase summary:Whether Mauritius Telecom and Cellplus are liable for acts of alleged unfair competition for breaches of (i) the conditions of Cellplus' mobile phone services licence for operations in Mauritius and (ii) conducting a mobile phone services business prior to the issue of this licence.Whether the Information and Communication Technologies Authority is jointly liable for tolerating these breaches or whether it cannot be held liable in tort as it has no distinct legal personality.
Last updated: 20 June 2024
JCPC/2022/0073
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COMMERCIAL
Awaiting judgmentCase summary:Whether Mauritius Telecom and Cellplus are liable for acts of alleged unfair competition for breaches of (i) the conditions of Cellplus' mobile phone services licence for operations in Mauritius and (ii) conducting a mobile phone services business prior to the issue of this licence.Whether the Information and Communication Technologies Authority is jointly liable for tolerating these breaches or whether it cannot be held liable in tort as it has no distinct legal personality.
Last updated: 20 June 2024
JCPC/2020/0027
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Awaiting judgmentCase summary:Whether the conviction was unsafe and a serious miscarriage of justice as a result of:The alleged failings of the Judge in his summing up; Alleged breaches of section 10(1) of the Constitution which protects the right to a fair hearing; Certain evidence given by witnesses not under oath; The alleged errors made by the Judge when directing the jury in relation to R v Jogee [2016] UKSC 8; An alleged breach of principles of equality and fairness in section 1 of the Constitution by virtue of the way the Appellant was charged in comparison with his co-Defendants. Whether the Appellant received an adequate reduction in the length of sentence in light of the breach of his constitutional right to a trial within a reasonable time.
Last updated: 20 June 2024
JCPC/2022/0083
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PUBLIC LAW/HUMAN RIGHTS
Awaiting judgmentCase summary:(1) Whether the sanction imposed by the Disciplinary Committee of The General Legal Council, striking the Respondent from the Roll of Attorneys-at-Law entitled to practice law in Jamaica, was an error of law or clearly inappropriate so as to warrant the intervention of the Court of Appeal in setting aside the order and imposing less severe sanctions.(2) Whether in the circumstances of the case, the Court of Appeal ought to have deferred to the decision of the Disciplinary Committee.
Last updated: 20 June 2024
JCPC/2021/0109
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PROCEDURE
Awaiting judgmentCase summary:Under the Strategic Services Agency Act, Chapter 15:06 of the Laws of Trinidad and Tobago (the "SSA Act"), is the Strategic Services Agency (the "SSA") a legal person capable of being sued in tort?
Last updated: 20 June 2024
JCPC/2021/0114
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PASTORAL MEASURES
Awaiting judgmentCase summary:Whether, when deciding that a scheme for the dissolution and division of a parish in the Diocese of Southwark should proceed, the Church Commissioners wrongly:(i) failed to consider whether the scheme gave rise to indirect discrimination, contrary to articles 8 and 9 of the Convention, read with article 14, insofar as the scheme would deprive a BAME-majority congregation of a BAME-led ministry; (ii) failed to have due regard to the public sector equality duty under section 149 of the Equality Act 2010; (iii) failed to consider the relevance of race inequality to the scheme's purpose, namely to make better provision for "the cure of souls"; and (iv) wrongly used the scheme to penalise the incumbent reverend for perceived mismanagement.
Last updated: 20 June 2024
JCPC/2022/0043
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EMPLOYMENT
Awaiting judgmentCase summary:1. Whether the Special Tribunal is a superior court of record.2. Whether decisions of the Special Tribunal are amenable to the supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court; and, if so, on what grounds and in what circumstances they may be reviewed.3. Whether, if the decision of the Special Tribunal in the present case was reviewable, it was a lawful decision; and, if not, whether it ought to be set aside.
Last updated: 20 June 2024
JCPC/2023/0070
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PUBLIC LAW/HUMAN RIGHTS
Awaiting judgmentCase summary:Did the Supreme Court err when it held that the 'liberal' approach to standing in environmental cases approved by the UK Supreme Court in Walton v The Scottish Ministers [2012] UKSC 44 ought to be adopted by the Environment and Land Use Appeal Tribunal when assessing whether a party has standing to bring an appeal under section 54(2) of the Environment Protection Act?
Last updated: 20 June 2024
JCPC/2023/0002
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COMMERCIAL
Awaiting judgmentCase summary:Whether a minority shareholder has standing to bring a personal claim against a company where the board of directors of that company had allegedly exercised their powers to issue and allot shares for the improper purpose of diluting the shareholding of the minority shareholder.
Last updated: 20 June 2024
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