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JCPC/2025/0105
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Should orders relating to (i) the removal of a trustee, (ii) protective relief for a beneficiary, and (iii) the sealing of the court’s file in relation to a trust have been stayed or refused pending the determination of appeals of those orders?
Last updated: 10 December 2025
JCPC/2024/0054
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Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in overturning the High Court’s findings of fact in relation to the rights of the Appellants to various parts of the deceased’s estate?
Last updated: 9 December 2025
JCPC/2025/0037
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COURT PROCEDURE
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Did the Master err in fact and/or in law in dismissing BONI’s application to set aside the default judgment in favour of Selecta? Did the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal err in fact and/or in law in dismissing BONI’s appeal against the Master’s order?
Last updated: 9 December 2025
JCPC/2025/0017
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Whether the Court of Appeal erred in treating the central issue as one of trespass in 2015 and in finding that the Appellant had no better right to the land and that his conduct amounted to trespass.
Last updated: 9 December 2025
JCPC/2025/0065/A
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 9 December 2025
JCPC/2025/0023
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CONSTITUTION
Permission to Appeal refusedCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal misapply the test for seeking an interim injunction in constitutional motions / cases.
Last updated: 5 December 2025
JCPC/2024/0083
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Awaiting hearing dateCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in holding that (1) the Respondents’ occupation period was not interrupted, and (2) the Appellant’s trial was fair?
Last updated: 5 December 2025
JCPC/2024/0063
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TAX
Judgment givenCase summary:Did the Supreme Court of Mauritius err in finding that, for the purposes of computing taxable profit arising from the sale of 93 plots following the parcelling of land, it was the value of the land ‘just before its development’, and not its historical cost at the date of acquisition, which should be taken into account pursuant to s.10(3) of the Income Tax Act 1995?
Last updated: 4 December 2025
JCPC/2024/0033
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Judgment givenCase summary:(1) Was the police’s seizure and detention of property pursuant to its powers under the State Lands Act Chap. 57:01 (“the Act”) lawful? (2) Who had jurisdiction and control over the property from the time of its seizure? (3) What is the correct process for the owner of the property seized to seek its release?
Last updated: 4 December 2025
JCPC/2023/0095
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CONSTITUTION
Judgment givenCase summary:Is section 37(3) of the Immigration (Transition) Act (2021 Revision) incompatible with the right to private and family life under section 9 of the Bill of Rights?
Last updated: 4 December 2025
JCPC/2024/0031
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NEGLIGENCE
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:(1) Can claims for unliquidated damages exceeding $4,000 give rise to appeals to the JCPC as of right under section 23(1) of the Bahamas Court of Appeal Act (the “CA Act”)? (2) Does the rule in Rylands v Fletcher impose strict liability on a landowner and lessor who neither occupies the land, nor owns or controls the dangerous thing? (3) Is the storage of fuel underground a “non-natural use of land” for the purposes of the rule in Rylands v Fletcher?
Last updated: 4 December 2025
JCPC/2025/0106
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EMPLOYMENT
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Substantive questions (1) Was the Gibraltar Employment Tribunal right to find on the facts that Mr Van Thienen had not been unfairly dismissed, bullied, or discriminated against? (2) Did the Supreme Court of Gibraltar and Court of Appeal for Gibraltar err or act improperly in not overturning the Employment Tribunal’s decision? Procedural questions (3) Mr Van Thienan was entitled to appeal by right to the Privy Council. However, he did not file an appeal motion within the prescribed twenty-one-day period. Did the Court of Appeal for Gibraltar have discretion to waive this delay and grant Mr Van Thienan leave to appeal to the Privy Council? (4) If the Court of Appeal for Gibraltar did have such discretion, should it have exercised it?
Last updated: 3 December 2025
JCPC/2025/0051
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EXTRADITION
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Can the appellant lawfully be extradited to the USA to be tried for drug-trafficking related offences?
Last updated: 3 December 2025
JCPC/2024/0007
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BUSINESS, PROPERTY, WILLS, AND TRUSTS
Judgment givenCase 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: 2 December 2025
JCPC/2025/0025
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CRIME
Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Was there a breach of the Appellant’s constitutional right to a fair hearing guaranteed under section 10(1) of the Constitution of Mauritius in the way that criminal proceedings concerning the Appellant were conducted?
Last updated: 2 December 2025
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