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JCPC/2025/0024
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Appeal issuedCase summary:Last updated: 28 March 2025
JCPC/2023/0119
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Judgment scheduledCase summary:(1) Does the Law of Property and Conveyancing (Condominium) Act 1965 (the “1965 Act”) prohibit the delegation of the Respondent’s statutory duties? (2) Do “contributions” under the 1965 Act include management fees charged by a third party carrying out the Respondent’s statutory management functions? (3) Did the trial judge err in refusing to award interest on the damages awarded to the Appellants?
Last updated: 28 March 2025
JCPC/2025/0023
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 28 March 2025
JCPC/2025/0022
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 28 March 2025
JCPC/2025/0020
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Appeal issuedCase summary:Linked casesLast updated: 26 March 2025
JCPC/2025/0021
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Appeal issuedCase summary:Last updated: 26 March 2025
JCPC/2024/0007
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Hearing listedCase summary:1) Whether the just and equitable winding-up jurisdiction may be used to alter, amend or supplement the normal effect of the law of contract in circumstances where the parties have entered into a contract regulating their relationship and where that contract expressly makes provision for the matter or matters giving rise to the Respondent’s complain. (2) Whether the Respondent’s complaint is governed exclusively by the law of contract. (3)Whether it was a breach of the duty to act in good faith for the General Partner to rely on entire-agreement clause in the 2017 Agreement to decline to give effect to assurances made outside of that Agreement. (4) Whether the reliance by the General Partner on the terms of the 2017 Agreement in not transferring the shares was misconduct in the management and affairs of the Partnership giving rise to a loss of trust and confidence as to justify the making of a winding up order on the just and equitable ground. (5) Whether the General Partner has breached its duty to act in good faith by refusing to transfer the shares in Legend Cayman to the Respondent so as to justify the making of a winding up order on the just and equitable ground. (6) Whether there is an adequate alternative remedy available to the Respondent by bringing an action for breach of duty under Section 19(1), Exempted Limited Partnership Act.
Last updated: 26 March 2025
JCPC/2018/0019
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Judgment givenCase summary:Can a statutory tenant under the Land Tenants (Security of Tenure) Act who fails to renew their statutory tenancy rely on proprietary estoppel by acquiescence?
Last updated: 26 March 2025
JCPC/2018/0064
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment givenCase summary:The central issue in this appeal is the proper interpretation of section 112(2) of the Companies Law (2013 Revision). The Appellant argues it should be permitted to rectify the Herald Fund SPC (in Official Liquidation) register in the manner he contends.
Last updated: 26 March 2025
JCPC/2024/0012
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Is the Appellant entitled to an order for possession of the disputed land on the basis that the Respondents are trespassers who have not acquired a possessory title by adverse possession?
Last updated: 25 March 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: 24 March 2025
JCPC/2024/0016
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment givenCase summary:Did the Judicial and Legal Services Commission act in breach of section 137 of the Constitution in procuring the Appellant’s resignation as a High Court Judge?
Last updated: 24 March 2025
JCPC/2022/0079
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment givenCase summary:Should leave to apply for judicial review have been (and should now be) granted? The issues on appeal include: 1. The correct approach to be applied on an appeal from a judge’s refusal to grant leave to apply for judicial review. 2. Whether the Appellants have a sufficiently arguable case for leave to apply for judicial review to be granted. 3. Whether the judge’s refusal to grant leave exceeded the ambit within which reasonable disagreement is possible. 4. Whether there is a relevant decision that the Chief Minister of Anguilla (the First Respondent) or the Executive Council of Anguilla could properly have made which would be the subject of the judicial review.
Last updated: 24 March 2025
JCPC/2024/1001
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Hearing listedCase 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: 24 March 2025
JCPC/2019/0014
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COURT PROCEDURE
Judgment givenCase summary:(1) Whether the majority of the Court of Appeal was correct to find that the first instance judge gave reasons for finding the President’s refusal to reinstate the Respondent was reviewable and, if not, whether the that failure to give reasons in fact mattered. (2) Whether the President made any decision or omission in relation to the Respondent’s resignation that is capable of review. (3) Whether, in the circumstances, the President erred in law in refusing to take any steps regarding, or to accede to the Respondent’s request for, reinstatement. (4) Whether the majority of the Court of Appeal was wrong in law in holding that in any event the claim should be allowed to be pursued on public interest grounds. (5) Whether in any event it is necessary for the President, through the Attorney-General, to be a party to the Respondent’s claim.
Last updated: 24 March 2025
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