2024

Nuisance – Commercial Lease – Noise from Adjoining Nightclub – Landlord liable in Nuisance if Participated Directly – Whether Landlord Liable for Breach of Covenant of Quiet Enjoyment – Whether Doctrine of Frustration applies – Alteration to Premises – Unstamped Lease Agreement Inadmissible for Enforcement of its Terms – Common Law – Privity of Contract – Parties agreed to be bound - The Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms (Constitutional Amendment) Act, 2011, section 16(2) - The Stamp Duty Act, section 36

Judicial Review − Student Surveyor served by registered post fails to appear at disciplinary hearing – Finding of guilt made in absentia – Sentence – Appeal from sentence – Judicial review of finding of guilt of Committee - Appeal from sentence to Court of Appeal – Challenge to finding of guilt and sentence concurrently in Supreme Court and Court of Appeal – No application for stay of proceedings in Court of Appeal – Court of Appeal reduces sentence before judicial review is complete – Effect on judicial review proceedings.

Civil Procedure – Civil Procedure Rules - Summary Judgment – Bills of Exchange Act – Whether any branch of a bank may be considered the Drawee Bank – Rights of Payee – Rights of Payee viz Collecting Bank - Banking Services Act/Regulation - Whether Bank may charge fees for services

Articles 7,29,37 and 38 of The Hague Convention- Children (Guardian and Custody Act) Amendment 2017- Sections 7E, R - Contracting Parties.

Civil Procedure –Default Cost Certificate – Whether there is a good reason to set aside the Default Cost Certificate – Civil Procedure Rules 64.6, 65.20 and 65.22

False Imprisonment – Malicious Prosecution – Whether there was Reasonable and Probable Cause Damages – Aggravated Damages – Exemplary Damages - Vindicatory

Land Law – Fraud – Defeasibility of title – Breach of contract of Sale for Land – Whether a contract was duly formed between the parties – Whether the Defendant/Purchaser completed payment of the purchase price – Whether the Defendant was a purchaser in possession or a Tenant – Whether the Registered Title was transferred to the Defendant by fraud – Whether a contract is still enforceable where there is fraudulent performance.

Civil Practice and Procedure – Application for Injunction – Whether there is a Serious Issue to be Tried – Whether or Not the Claimant Has Established a Case with a Real Prospect of Success in Nuisance Against the 1st and 4th Defendants.

Civil Practice and Procedure – Application for Injunction – Whether Damages is an Adequate Remedy for the Claimant – Whether the Balance of Convenience Lies with the 1st and 4th Defendants or the Claimants in their Competing Interests to Enjoy the User of their Respective Properties.

Judicial Review – Was the vehicle uncustomed goods – Locus Standi – Can the court make orders about the Claimant’s equitable rights in the absence of the legal owner – Was the vehicle unlawfully seized by the agents of the Jamaica Customs department – Abuse of Process – The Customs Act, s. 2, 19, 91, 210, 219 and 259
Costs – No Orders as to Costs – Civil Procedure Rules, 2002, Part 64

Interpretation of a Contract - Lease between initial tenants later assigned to Claimant – after death of landlord Claimant sought to exercise option to purchase – land occupied by the Claimant is larger than what is described in the lease – Construction of the term of the lease – Error in Contract – Whether business efficacy is a suitable method in interpreting contracts where an existing interpretation leads of an absurdity – Whether the Court should rectify the contract to reflect the true intentions of the parties – Specific performance – Damages