2018

Civil Procedure - Application for Relief from Sanctions - Civil Procedure Rules - Rule 26.8 - Whether application was made promptly - Attorney’s failure to inform client of case management conference - Defence under the Limitation of Actions Act

Judicial review - Retrospectivity of the INDECOM Act - Legislative Interpretation - INDECOM Act - Official Secrets Act- Public Interest Immunity - INDECOM’s jurisdiction - Disclosure - Warrants and Notices issued under the INDECOM Act

Family law - Division of matrimonial property - Shares - Joint shares account - Property (Rights of Spouses) Act, 2006 - Section 14.

Family Law - Division of property - Matrimonial property - Family home - Other property - Property (Rights of Spouses) Act - Sections 4, 6, 14 and 15

Application to set aside default judgment - Whether or not default judgment was regularly obtained - Whether applicant can plead inconsistent alternative grounds in support of application - Whether to serve accompanying documents along with the claim form and particulars of claim renders the claims a nullity - How to properly dispute the Court's jurisdiction to try the claim.

Matrimonial Property - Division of matrimonial property - Variation of the equal share rule - The Property (Rights of Spouses) Act

Administrative law - Judicial review - Constitutional relief - The Public Service - Compulsory retirement - Retirement on the grounds of re-organization redeployment - Whether public servant has the right to be heard prior to compulsory retirement - Whether the Judicature (Supreme Court) (Amendment) Act, 2016 is unconstitutional - Separation of powers - Jamaica (Constitution) Order in Council, 1962 - The Pensions Act - The Public Service Regulations, 1961 - Locus standi - Certiorari - Order of prohibition - Permanent injunction - Damages in public law - Declarations.

Application for summary judgment - Whether defence has real prospect of success – Loan - Guarantee and Indemnity - Whether misrepresentation about time of disbursement – Application post dates misrepresentation - Whether guarantor‟s error exculpatory.

Company Law - Application for permission to bring a derivative action outside the jurisdiction - Preliminary point as to jurisdiction - Whether S. 212 of Companies Act applies only to actions in Jamaica – Whether application ought to be by Fixed Date Claim