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JCPC/2023/0073
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CONSTITUTION
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in setting aside a test case agreement and consent order agreed between the parties?
Linked casesLast updated: 4 February 2025
JCPC/2023/0072
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CONSTITUTION
Awaiting JudgmentCase summary:Did the Court of Appeal err in setting aside a test case agreement and consent order agreed between the parties?
Linked casesLast updated: 4 February 2025
JCPC/2023/0095
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CONSTITUTION
Awaiting JudgmentCase 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 February 2025
JCPC/2023/0088
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COMMERCIAL
Judgment scheduledCase summary:Was the trial judge wrong to find that one party to a contract had stolen material from the other, when the allegation of theft had not been made expressly in the alleging party's statement of case? Did the trial judge interpret the meaning of the word "theft" correctly, including questions of knowledge and dishonesty if relevant, when finding that the allegation of theft was proven?
Last updated: 31 January 2025
JCPC/2023/0096
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TAX
Hearing listedCase summary:Was a Société, in which the appellant was a partner, engaged in a business within the meaning of the Income Tax Act 1995?
Last updated: 31 January 2025
JCPC/2016/0062
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Judgment givenCase summary:Whether the Court of Appeal was wrong to uphold the decision that no misrepresentation or negligent misstatement had been made.
Last updated: 30 January 2025
JCPC/2010/0006
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Judgment givenCase summary:This is an appeal from the Supreme Court of Mauritius (Court of Civil Appeal) allowing the respondent’s appeal from the judgment of the Supreme Court. The respondent had claimed from the appellant VAT on rent due between 16 January 2000 and 15 January 2005 which had been agreed at a rate of Rs15 per square foot per month. The total value of the claim is Rs3,692,689.27. Whether the Court of Civil Appeal was correct in holding that the fixed rent of Rs15 per square foot was exclusive of VAT for the combined period 16 January 2000 to 15 January 2005.
Last updated: 30 January 2025
JCPC/2009/0042
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Judgment givenCase summary:Employment appeal by two female police officers seeking redress for sex discrimination under section 14 of the Constitution of Trinidad and Tobago.
Last updated: 30 January 2025
JCPC/2025/0009
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 30 January 2025
JCPC/2020/0091
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LANDLORD AND TENANT
Judgment givenCase summary:Was the Supreme Court of the Bahamas (upheld by the Court of Appeal) right to hold (a) that the executor of an estate did not have the relevant power to transfer a property to the appellant; and (b) the counterclaim seeking that declaration was not time-barred?
Last updated: 30 January 2025
JCPC/2025/0008
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Permission to Appeal application lodgedCase summary:Last updated: 29 January 2025
JCPC/2024/0057
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CONSTITUTION
Judgment givenCase summary:Should the Respondent, the Auditor General (“AG”), be permitted to bring a judicial review of the Appellants’ decision to investigate the AG’s approach to auditing the 2023 public accounts, on the basis that that decision was vitiated by apparent bias and/or in breach of the Constitution?
Last updated: 28 January 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: 28 January 2025
JCPC/2024/0033
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Hearing listedCase 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: 27 January 2025
JCPC/2024/0044
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PUBLIC LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Hearing listedCase summary:Is the International Co-operation (Protection from Liability) (Jersey) Law 2018 a disproportionate restriction on the right of access to the court and therefore incompatible with article 6(1) of the European Convention of Human Rights?
Last updated: 27 January 2025
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