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• The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

  Hearing

  10 March 2026

  Jim Peter Grant and two others (Respondents) v Glenda Jackman and three others (Appellants) (Trinidad and Tobago)

  Lord Briggs,

  Lord Hamblen,

  Lord Leggatt,

  Lady Rose,

  Lord Doherty

  For the purposes of establishing ownership of a property, does section 16(1) of the Registration of Deeds Act mean that a deed which is registered earlier takes priority over a deed which is registered later, even if the former was executed after the latter?

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• The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

  Judgment

  13 March 2026

  Rubis Bahamas Ltd (Appellant) v Lillian Antoinette Russell (Respondent) (The Bahamas)

  Lord Lloyd-Jones,

  Lord Briggs,

  Lord Hamblen,

  Lord Stephens,

  Lady Rose,

  Lord Richards,

  Lady Simler

  (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?

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• The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

  Hearing

  16 March 2026

  Caribbean Airlines Ltd (Appellant) v Communication Transport and General Workers' Union (Respondent) (Trinidad and Tobago)

  Lord Sales,

  Lord Hamblen,

  Lord Stephens

  Did the Court of Appeal err in upholding the Industrial Court’s ruling that the Appellant is the successor to British West Indian Airways and therefore bound to recognise the Respondent as one of its recognised majority unions under the Industrial Relations Act?

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• UK Supreme Court

  Hearing

  17 March 2026

  R (on the application of Bano) (Appellant) v London Borough of Waltham Forest (Respondent)

  Lord Reed,

  Lord Sales,

  Lord Hamblen,

  Lord Stephens,

  Lady Rose

  Whether a local authority’s duty to house homeless applicants under section 193 of the Housing Act 1996 ends by operation of law or whether the local authority is required to make a decision that the duty has ended.

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• The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

  Hearing

  19 March 2026

  Manhattan Coffee Investment Holding (in liquidation) (Respondent) v Stephen Mbugua Mwagiru (Appellant) (Mauritius)

  Lord Briggs,

  Lord Leggatt,

  Lady Rose,

  Lord Richards,

  Lord Doherty

  Did the Court of Appeal err (1) by concluding that the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court of Mauritius had granted the Appellant leave under section 154(1)(c) of the Insolvency Act to continue the Plaint in the name and on behalf of the Respondent; and (2) by failing to treat the application as one to enable the Appellant to apply under the Court’s inherent jurisdiction and section 174(3)(a) of the Insolvency Act for leave to continue the Plaint as a derivative claim?

  Linked cases

  JCPC/2025/0044 Manhattan Coffee Investment Holding (in liquidation) (Respondent) v Stephen Mbugua Mwagiru (Appellant) (Mauritius) No 2

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