2018

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

Date of separation - Divisin of family home - Equal share rule - Partnership of equals - Variarion of equal share rule - Unjust - Unreasonable - Factors to be considered - What is fair and just in the circumstances - Contribution - Other factor - Ownership of other property - Burden of proof - Division of property other than family home - Occupation rent - Mense profit - Definition of property - Inherent jurisdiction.

Division of matrimonial property - Family home - Other property - Proceeds of sale of family home used to purchase other property - Other property registered solely to one spouse – Beneficial interest of spouse - Rent

Negligence – Servant and/or agent – Agency - Vicarious liability – Motor vehicle accident – Transfer of motor vehicle.

Application for Summary Judgment and to dispense with mediation – Rules 15.2 and 74.4(1) Civil Procedure Rules