Privy Council Watch · Term archive
Michaelmas Term 2024
Selected Judicial Committee hearings from October to December 2024 concerning Cayman shareholder appraisal, BVI directors and liquidation, insolvency standing and commercial-contract termination.
Reviewed 10 October 2026 against the Board’s official case and judgment records. Four completed appeals and 11 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.
Changyou.com Ltd v Fourworld Global Opportunities Fund Ltd and others
Question before the Court
Whether minority shareholders in a Cayman subsidiary have statutory appraisal rights when a parent uses the short-form merger procedure under Part 16 of the Companies Act.
Why it matters
A significant Cayman company-law decision confirming fair-value appraisal rights for dissenting shareholders whose shares are compulsorily acquired in a short-form merger.
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Official archived sessions
Woodford Construction Ltd v Readymix (West Indies) Ltd
Question before the Court
Whether a commercial contract was validly terminated for theft where dishonesty was not separately pleaded or expressly analysed by the courts below.
Why it matters
A practical Trinidad and Tobago contract and appellate-procedure decision on termination grounds, proof of dishonesty and the Board’s restraint where two courts have made concurrent factual findings.
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Official archived sessions
Fang Ankong and another v Green Elite Ltd (in liquidation)
Question before the Court
Whether directors who distributed a BVI company’s sale proceeds and dividends were protected by unanimous shareholder assent under the Duomatic principle.
Why it matters
A directly relevant BVI company and insolvency decision on fiduciary control of company assets, proper purpose and what must be shown before informal unanimous assent can validate a distribution.
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Official archived sessions
Stevanovich v Richardson and another (Joint Liquidators of Barrington Capital Group Ltd)
Question before the Court
Whether a former director was a person aggrieved entitled to challenge BVI liquidators’ admission of a proof, or could invoke the court’s inherent supervision to require an expungement application.
Why it matters
An important BVI insolvency decision applying the standing principles in Brake to office-holder decisions and defining the narrow circumstances in which a third party may use the statutory challenge procedure.
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Official archived sessions
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