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JCPC/2025/0014
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Did the courts below fail properly to consider all the evidence in: (1) granting a mortgagee an order for vacant possession over a defaulting mortgagor’s property; and (2) ordering the mortgagor to pay a sum into court before granting an extension of time for permission to appeal that vacant possession order?
Last updated: 28 July 2025
JCPC/2025/0012
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err by: (1) Failing to give effect to a later contract, known as the “2014 agreement”, which allegedly remained a valid agreement. (2) Conducting an enquiry into sums paid under an earlier agreement, known as the “2007 agreement”, rather than acknowledging the 2014 superseded this agreement. (3) Failing to appreciate that section 11 of the Moneylenders Act was inapplicable to the 2014 agreement. (4) Failing to consider that, if the 2014 agreement was nevertheless non-compliant with section 11, then the Appellant was entitled to relief under the principles of unjust enrichment.
Last updated: 28 July 2025
JCPC/2025/0009
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in deciding that the appellant was not entitled to rest on the advances received from her late husband’s moveable estate while he was alive, to the extent that the advances exceeded the disposable one-third of his moveable estate?
Last updated: 28 July 2025
JCPC/2025/0008
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ARBITRATION
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Should a claim by RBH for rectification of JLS’s share register have been stayed on the basis that it is subject to an arbitration agreement between JLS’s shareholders (including RBH)?
Last updated: 28 July 2025
JCPC/2025/0003
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:(1) Whether the Court of Appeal was correct that the appellants’ counterclaim for adverse possession against the second respondent was not procedurally compliant and was in fact an ancillary claim? (2) Whether the trial judge was wrong not to make a declaration in favour of the appellants for adverse possession of the annex on the second respondent’s property?
Last updated: 28 July 2025
JCPC/2024/1002
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Did the Appellant acquire title to the disputed land by adverse possession? Was the Appellant entitled to the disputed land by the principle of estoppel?
Last updated: 28 July 2025
JCPC/2024/0014
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Awaiting JudgmentCase 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: 25 July 2025
JCPC/2022/0107
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CRIME
Judgment scheduledCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err by upholding the trial judge’s decision to stay the indictment against the respondent?
Last updated: 25 July 2025
JCPC/2025/0004
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TORT
Appeal issuedCase summary:Is there a duty on an Attorney-at-Law to look behind a foreign power of attorney which is regular on its face and satisfies the relevant statutory provisions, and contains no express requirement on its face to look behind it?
Last updated: 24 July 2025
JCPC/2024/0040
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CRIME
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:In what circumstances can a person make an application for redress under section 15 of the Bermuda Constitution in respect of an alleged breach of fundamental rights, where the breach complained of arises retrospectively following the decision of a court.
Last updated: 24 July 2025
JCPC/2025/0071
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Appeal issuedCase summary:Last updated: 24 July 2025
JCPC/2024/0077
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Judgment givenCase summary:What (if any) is the scope of the joint interest privilege enjoyed by the shareholders and former shareholders of Jardine Strategic Limited (the “First Appellant”) over legal advice obtained by the First Appellant? Can a company assert privilege over its legal advice against a shareholder only where litigation privilege is established, or from the time that the interests of the company and shareholder became adverse?
Last updated: 24 July 2025
JCPC/2024/0009
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Judgment givenCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in refusing to strike out fair value appraisal claims by parties that had acquired shares with the knowledge that the company would shortly be amalgamated into another company, and what is the proper approach to identifying fair value?
Last updated: 24 July 2025
JCPC/2025/0055
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COMMERCIAL
Appeal issuedCase summary:Did the judge err in ordering HSBC to repay to Bettas the funds in its HSBC account together with both: (i) interest (to be assessed if not agreed) from the commencement of proceedings in 2011 until the date of judgment; and (ii) statutory interest from the date of judgment until the date of payment?
Last updated: 23 July 2025
JCPC/2025/0070
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Appeal issuedCase summary:Last updated: 23 July 2025
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