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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: 3 October 2025
JCPC/2024/0092
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COMMERCIAL
Hearing listedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in finding that the termination notice period given by the Respondents was reasonable?
Last updated: 3 October 2025
JCPC/2025/0099
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 3 October 2025
JCPC/2024/1001
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Awaiting judgmentCase summary:What is the proper approach to the public interest balancing exercise required by section 35 of the Freedom of Information Act (“the FOIA”) where an applicant has requested disclosure of information from a public authority and the public authority considers there to be an applicable exemption?
Last updated: 3 October 2025
JCPC/2025/0098
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 2 October 2025
JCPC/2025/0062
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COMMERCIAL
Appeal issuedCase summary:Did the courts below err in finding that the Appellant unreasonably failed to mitigate its loss? If the courts below were correct to find that the defendant unreasonably failed to mitigate its loss, did that failure arise: (1) on 31 January 2012, when the Appellant instructed the Respondent to reconvert the money in its account from US dollars into South African Rands (as the Commercial Division found), or (2) on 1 March 2012, owing to the Appellant’s failure to direct that the money in its account be converted into US dollars (as the Court of Civil Appeal found)?
Last updated: 2 October 2025
JCPC/2023/0020
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CONSTITUTION
Judgment scheduledCase summary:Whether section 1 of the Constitution of Bermuda is independently and directly enforceable, and if so whether certain legislative measures contravened the Appellant's rights to protection of law and to protection from deprivation of property without compensation. In any event, whether those legislative measures contravened the rule of law and the separation of powers.
Last updated: 2 October 2025
JCPC/2025/0097
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 1 October 2025
JCPC/2025/0010
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Is the Appellant or the Respondent the lawful tenant of a plot of land? Was there a valid transfer by Justina Joseph (the “Deceased”) of the tenancy rights to the land and a chattel house built upon it to the Respondent in 1990?
Last updated: 1 October 2025
JCPC/2025/0005
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ARBITRATION
Hearing listedCase summary:Did the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal err in holding that: (1) it was not bound to apply the rule in Henry v Geoprosco [1976] 1 QB 726; and (2) the Respondent has not submitted to the jurisdiction of the Pakistan courts?
Last updated: 30 September 2025
JCPC/2024/0043
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COMMERCIAL
Hearing listedCase summary:Is an unlicensed business able to enforce a loan contract and charge against the property of a borrower if they default on payment? Was the Court of Appeal entitled to refuse the appellant leave to appeal to the Judicial Committee on the basis that the appeal was devoid of merit and had no prospect of success, where otherwise the appellant would have an appeal as of right?
Last updated: 30 September 2025
JCPC/2024/0014
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Judgment scheduledCase summary:Did the delay between the hearing of evidence and the Supreme Court’s judgment (i) breach the Appellants’ right to a fair trial within a reasonable time or (ii) affect the judge’s ability to deal properly with the issues?
Last updated: 30 September 2025
JCPC/2024/0050
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COMMERCIAL
Hearing listedCase summary:Whether pleading a case solely on the basis of quantum meruit – and on the absence of a contract – precludes the award of damages for breach of contract (to the party pleading the quantum meruit case).
Last updated: 30 September 2025
JCPC/2025/0096
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 30 September 2025
JCPC/2025/0040
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LANDLORD AND TENANT
Appeal issuedCase summary:Can land owned by the Crown be acquired by prescription?
Last updated: 30 September 2025
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