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Kingston Wharves Limited Et al v Coast to Coast Traders Limited

Civil Procedure - Application for the court to decline to exercise its jurisdiction to try a claim - Whether the failure to comply with CPR 8.16 amounts to ineffective service - Whether application to strike out the claim on the basis of no reasonable grounds to bring it amounts to submitting to the court’s jurisdiction - Whether permission required for filing an amended Fixed Date Claim Form in light of the application to strike out the claim.

Campbell, Louise v Hotel Decameron Jamaica Limited, Club Caribbean Limited, Hoteles Decameron Comumbia SAS, Terran Group and Equity International et al

Contract - Breach of employment contract – Secondment of employees - Whether contract of employment repudiated by employee - Whether notice required before termination of a Fixed term employment contract – Whether termination before expiry amount to wrongful termination of a fixed term contract – Whether the measure of damages is based on the unexpired term

Knight, Alrick v V & M Import and Export Company Limited

<p>Negligence - Personal Injury - Liability for dogs based on a breach of duty of care - Whether the defendant owed the claimant a duty of care in relation to dog(s) on its premises – Whether the claimant was a trespasser - quantum of damages Whether Reply contains new causes of action not pleaded in the particulars of claim-application to amend claim form and particulars of claim after close of claimant’s case - CPR 8.9(1), 10.9</p>

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