Privy Council Watch · Term archive
Hilary Term 2025
Selected Judicial Committee hearings from February and March 2025 concerning Jersey trusts, Bermuda shareholder litigation, Cayman insolvency and commercial contracts.
Reviewed 3 October 2026 against the Board’s official case and judgment records. Five completed appeals and ten archived hearing sessions are retained.
Each entry is an original, concise research summary based on the Court’s official case record. Hearing dates may change. After a hearing, the official case page normally adds recordings; when judgment is delivered, it adds the judgment, neutral citation and press summary. Those materials remain on the Court’s website and are linked here rather than reproduced.
Imperium Trustees (Jersey) Ltd v Jersey Competent Authority and another
Question before the Court
Whether article 6 ECHR applied to judicial-review proceedings challenging a Jersey tax-information notice and whether statutory costs protection for the authority was incompatible with a fair hearing.
Why it matters
Relevant to offshore trusts, cross-border information requests and the procedural protections available when a Jersey fiduciary is required to provide material to a foreign tax authority.
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Official archived sessions
Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd and others
Question before the Court
Whether shareholders who acquired shares after notice of a Bermuda amalgamation could invoke the statutory appraisal procedure and whether their acquisition timing affected fair value.
Why it matters
A significant Bermuda company-law decision on dissenters’ rights, merger arbitrage, standing and the objective appraisal of fair value following an amalgamation.
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Official archived sessions
Jardine Strategic Ltd v Oasis Investments II Master Fund Ltd and others (No 2)
Question before the Court
Whether shareholders could override a company’s legal advice privilege under the so-called Shareholder Rule or a broader claim of joint interest.
Why it matters
A leading company-litigation and disclosure decision abolishing the Shareholder Rule in Bermuda and, by express direction, for litigation in England and Wales.
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Official archived sessions
Dipcon Engineering Services Ltd v Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd
Question before the Court
Whether an engineering contractor became entitled to an additional payment under a FIDIC-based agreement when the employer’s required board approval was never obtained.
Why it matters
A practical commercial-contract decision on conditions precedent, corporate approval, authority and when a negotiated payment entitlement crystallises.
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Official archived sessions
Aquapoint LP (in official liquidation) v Xiaohu Fan
Question before the Court
When equitable considerations can justify winding up a Cayman exempted limited partnership despite the general partner’s reliance on strict contractual rights.
Why it matters
A directly relevant Cayman insolvency and partnership decision on just-and-equitable winding up, legitimate expectations, good faith and the adequacy of alternative remedies.
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Official archived sessions
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