2017

Lachman, Aston v Surrey Paving and Aggregate Company Limited

Contract – Oral – Terms – Whether contract for the sharing of earnings provided for sharing of retention payments
Evidence – Hearsay rule – Corporate entity - Whether a witness repeating information from a fellow employee as to the terms of an agreement he made offends the hearsay rule

Ferguson, Vincent Lee v Air Jamaica Limited

Negligence - Concealment by fraud - Statute of limitations - Whether airlinie liable for luggage after passenger convicted - Whether Warsaw Convention governs claim - Whether the claim is statute barred under the Warsaw Convention - Whether the claimant can seek a remedy to the exclusion of the Warsaw Convention.

Regina v The Commissioner of Police Ex Parte Christopher Alexander Getfield

Application for Judicial Review – Certiorari - to quash
decision of Commissioner of Police to dismiss and
refusal of Re-enlistment in the Jamaica Constabulary
Force – breach of right of fair hearing – Reg. 20, 45, 46,
47 Police Services Regulation, 1961. Section 5 of
Jamaica Constabulary Force Act.

Hosang, Myra Rose v Hosand, David Anthony

Maintenance – Children – wife – Sections 4, 5, 9 and 14 of Maintenance Act, 2005. Property (Rights of Spouses) Act, 2004 Section 2, 6 and 13. – Lump-sum payment from asset of spouse – Payment mortgage arrears – Occupational rent.

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