Privy Council Watch · Term archive
Trinity Term 2025
Selected Judicial Committee hearings from June and July 2025, with original issue summaries, jurisdictional context, judgments, press summaries and available official session recordings.
Reviewed 20 September 2026 against Alexander’s practice areas. Four relevant completed appeals and 12 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.
Credit Suisse Life (Bermuda) Ltd v Ivanishvili and linked cross-appeal
Question before the Court
Whether deceit required the claimants to know of the representations relied on, together with linked issues concerning policy construction, limitation, fiduciary duties and the measure of investment loss.
Why it matters
A major Bermuda financial-services and civil-fraud decision concerning dishonest investment management, contractual duties and the assessment of very substantial losses.
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Official archived sessions
Gift and another v Rowley
Question before the Court
Whether a 1975 agreement entitled the purchaser to acquire a defined 56.5-acre parcel or a parcel whose size remained to be confirmed.
Why it matters
A concise Trinidad and Tobago commercial-property decision on contractual construction, land identification and enforceability of a long-standing purchase arrangement.
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Official archived sessions
Maso Capital Investments Ltd and another v Trina Solar Ltd
Question before the Court
Whether the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal was entitled to disturb the trial judge’s methodology for valuing shares following a statutory merger.
Why it matters
A significant Cayman company-law decision on dissenting-shareholder fair value, expert valuation evidence and appellate restraint in valuation disputes.
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Official archived sessions
Bain and another v Rolle
Question before the Court
Whether a prolonged delay between trial and judgment breached the appellants’ right to a hearing within a reasonable time or impaired the judge’s treatment of the evidence and issues.
Why it matters
A practical Bahamian appellate-procedure decision on delayed judgments, fairness and the circumstances in which delay can undermine fact-finding.
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Official archived sessions
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