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JCPC/2025/0094
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VETERINARY SURGEONS
Appeal issuedCase summary:Whether the sanction imposed by the Respondent on the Appellant was disproportionate and not founded on sound and lawful reasoning.
Last updated: 4 November 2025
JCPC/2025/0081
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in finding that it would be disproportionate to enforce the confiscation order made against the Respondent in circumstances where his co-defendant had satisfied the confiscation order made against that co-defendant?
Linked casesLast updated: 4 November 2025
JCPC/2025/0065
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NEGLIGENCE
Permission to Appeal grantedCase summary:These appeals concern allegations of clinical negligence following Aeden’s birth. The issues raised for the JCPC’s consideration all concern findings of fact in relation to the cause of Aeden’s cerebral palsy. In Dr Abdulla’s appeal: (1) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to find that the High Court had made a “plainly wrong” finding of fact as to the timing of Dr Abdulla’s arrival? (2) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to find that causation was inevitably proved against Dr Abdulla, if it was proved that he arrived at 4am? In Aeden’s appeal: Was Court of Appeal wrong to uphold the High Court’s finding that it had not been proved that Surgi-Med Co Ltd’s breach of duty caused Aeden’s cerebral palsy?
Linked casesLast updated: 4 November 2025
JCPC/2025/0063
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NEGLIGENCE
Permission to Appeal grantedCase summary:These appeals concern allegations of clinical negligence following Aeden’s birth. The issues raised for the JCPC’s consideration all concern findings of fact in relation to the cause of Aeden’s cerebral palsy. In Dr Abdulla’s appeal: (1) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to find that the High Court had made a “plainly wrong” finding of fact as to the timing of Dr Abdulla’s arrival? (2) Was the Court of Appeal wrong to find that causation was inevitably proved against Dr Abdulla, if it was proved that he arrived at 4am? In Aeden’s appeal: Was Court of Appeal wrong to uphold the High Court’s finding that it had not been proved that Surgi-Med Co Ltd’s breach of duty caused Aeden’s cerebral palsy?
Linked casesLast updated: 4 November 2025
JCPC/2025/0016
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Was the Court of Appeal correct in finding that the respondents had a greater right to the land than the appellant?
Last updated: 4 November 2025
JCPC/2024/0075
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EMPLOYMENT
Awaiting hearing dateCase summary:Did an attorney’s conduct of refunding the deposit in full solely to a co-client as co-purchaser following the cancellation of a sale agreement amount to a breach of Canon IV(s) of the Legal Profession (Canons of Professional Ethics) Rules 1978? If so, what is the appropriate sanction and what rules of due process apply to disciplinary proceedings?
Last updated: 3 November 2025
JCPC/2025/0010
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Permission to Appeal refusedCase 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: 3 November 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 November 2025
JCPC/2025/0108
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 3 November 2025
JCPC/2024/0050
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment givenCase 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 October 2025
JCPC/2023/0109
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment givenCase summary:In what circumstances are Commissioners to a Commission of Enquiry required to give notice to individuals that it intends to criticise them in its report?
Last updated: 30 October 2025
JCPC/2025/0036
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TORT
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Was the Court of Appeal correct to interfere with the High Court’s finding that the appellant doctor was not negligent?
Last updated: 29 October 2025
JCPC/2023/0048
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CRIME
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Having found the appellant guilty of damage and possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life, but having acquitted him of armed robbery, had the jury been misdirected by the judge and did they deliver inconsistent verdicts as a result? If so, is the appellant’s conviction unsafe?
Last updated: 28 October 2025
JCPC/2020/0072
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TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS
Judgment givenCase summary:(1) Whether the Constitution of the Turks and Caicos Islands (“TCI”) bars a Supreme Court judge located outside the territorial boundaries of the TCI from presiding over and determining proceedings including criminal trials? (2) Whether Regulation 4(6) of the Emergency Powers (Covid-19) (Court Proceedings) Regulations 2020 goes no further than providing that a TCI Supreme Court judge located abroad could be deemed to be sitting in the TCI and presiding over and determining proceedings, including criminal trials, taking place in the TCI? (3) Whether this reading of Regulation 4(6) is compatible with the Constitution? (4) Whether Regulation 4(6), though framed in general terms, would in practice only apply to the Appellants’ criminal trial? (5) Having regard to the stage of the trial which had been reached, whether the application of Regulation 4(6) so as to enable the judge to resume conduct of the Appellants’ trial from Jamaica would create an inequality of arms between the prosecution and the defence, contrary to the Appellants’ right to a fair trial?
Last updated: 27 October 2025
JCPC/2025/0070
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INSOLVENCY
Appeal issuedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in dismissing the application on the basis that the sole director of the company failed to provide evidence that he was authorised to represent the company in proceedings?
Last updated: 24 October 2025
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