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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): Did the courts below find as a fact that the fuel from the 2012 leak migrated to the respondent’s land and contaminated it? (2): Is it a precondition to liability under the rule in Rylands v Fletcher that the defendant be in occupation of the land from which the dangerous thing escapes? (3): Is the storage of fuel underground a "non-natural use of land" for the purposes of the rule in Rylands v Fletcher? (4): Did the Court of Appeal err in its assessment of damages?
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?
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.
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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UK Supreme Court
Hearing
20 May 2026
Forthwell Limited (Appellant) v Pontegadea UK Limited (Respondent)
Lord Reed,
Lord Burrows,
Lord Stephens,
Lady Simler
In what circumstances can a party to a contract recover damages for a breach of that contract in respect of losses that were sustained not by the contracting party itself but by its subsidiary?