The Honourable Miss Justice Althea Jarrett

Arbitration Act 2017 - Application to set aside arbitral awards - Whether there are two final awards - Whether there is a partial award and a final award – Whether the cost award is an amendment to the merits award –section 55 (3) of the Arbitration Act 2017 - Whether time to set aside the awards has expired section 49 of the Arbitration Act - Whether time can be extended under section 55(3) of the Arbitration Act 2017- UNCITRAL Model Law - Jamaica International Arbitration Centre (JIAC) Fast Track Rules – Whether a cost award can be set aside in the face of Article 14 (2) of the Jamaica In

Motor vehicle accident – Whether the defendant liable in negligence - Whether claimant contributory negligent

Recovery of possession of land - Whether the registered proprietor is barred from seeking recovery of possession under sections 3 and 30 of the Limitation of Actions Act - Whether the registered proprietor’s rights and interest have been extinguished – Whether mesne profits are payable – Whether the lack of building approval should disentitle the defendant from a possessory title – Whether mesne profits are payable.

Personal injury - Whether defendant liable in negligence – Reliability of medical evidence

Application to modify restrictive covenants under section 3(1) of the Restrictive Covenants (Discharge and Modification) Act – What is the neighbourhood – Whether the character of the neighbourhood has changed - whether restrictions are obsolete - Whether the reasonable user of land impeded – Whether the proposed modification will not injure the persons entitled to the benefit of the restrictions

Claimant filing suit in a representative capacity as executor of his mother’s estate - Death of the claimant prior to trial - Devolution of office of executor on death where there is a surviving co-executor - Inapplicability of the chain of representation - Suitability of applying for administrator ad litem by executor of deceased claimant -Applicability of CPR 19.3, 19.2(5) and 21.8

Adequacy of claimant’s pleadings – Application to amend statement of case – Defendant requesting that claimant’s statement of case be struck out - Registered mortgage and the effect of foreclosure on the equity of redemption - Sections 119 and 120 of the Registration of Titles Act

Setting aside order for alternative method of service of claim form and particulars of claim on insurer - Extending time to make the application - Whether the insurer’s efforts to contact its insured were reasonable. 

Whether there was service of a notice of application for court orders – The effect of filing an amended notice of application for court orders – Whether an amended notice of application for court orders supersede an earlier notice of application - Whether the earlier notice of application should be struck out for lack of compliance with a court order directing service by a specified date

Application to amend statement of case - CPR 19.4 - Adding a defendant after the limitation period - Whether case of misidentification or misnaming - CPR 20.4 – Application to strike out claimant’s statement of claim.