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Ton Rick Enterprises Limited v CSSI Seafood Processing Limited And Clarendon Seafood Limited and Ton Rick Enterprises Limited

Contract – Bailment – Goods requiring special care - Duty of bailee - Whether duty delegable to third party - Whether bailee took reasonable care when loading container – Whether bailee took reasonable care to ensure container maintained or was capable of maintaining required temperature - Container owned by a third party - Whether container defective - Whether bailee liable - Whether sums due and owing to Ancillary Claimant.

Fair Trading Commission v Supreme Ventueres Limited and Supreme Ventures Gaming Limited

Civil Procedure - Application to strike out claim – Application to stay proceedings
– CPR Rule 26.1(2) – CPR Rule 26.3(1) – Fair Competition Act - Whether fact that 1st Defendant is unlicensed is fatal to the claim - Whether Defendants interrelated
parties within the meaning of the Act - Appeal in other proceedings challenging
report - Whether report integral to claim - Whether claim should be stayed pending appeal.

Re Financial Services Commission and The Pension Superannuation Funds and Retirement Scheme Act

Pensions - The Pensions (Superannuation Funds and Retirement Schemes) Act, 2006 – Section 27(2)(b) – Section 27(4) – Whether requirement of 90 days’ notice of an intention to wind up is mandatory – Whether failure to give 90 days’ notice renders notification void – Whether regulator’s jurisdiction to give approval affected – Whether notice may be varied or time within which to consider extended – Whether declaration should have a prospective effect.

Levy, John and Wilkinson, Courtney v Chambers, Gerald and Gordon Shirley et al

Injunction - Application for interim injunctive relief – Application to strike out or stay claim and for disclosure – Whether consent judgment entered in St. Lucia dispositive of claim – Whether Defendants to be restrained from treating with company assets - Whether valuation done in St Lucia fair - Whether misrepresentation or fraud - Whether failure to answer valuer’s requisitions ground for complaint - Whether issues more appropriately litigated in St Lucia.

Stewart, Adam v Stewart Robert, Dmitri Smith, Elizabeth Desnoes, Laurence McDonald and Gorstew Limited

Interlocutory injunction - Estate Gordon 'Butch' Stewart - Testator devised company shares and assets giving detailed instructions to executors - Directors meeting called - Whether a director and beneficiary has locus standi to prevent the directors meeting - Section 213A Companies Act - Whether anticipated oppressive act can be restrained. 

Fair Trading Commission v Supreme Ventures Limited and Supreme Ventures Gaming Limited

Civil Procedure - Application to strike out claim - Application to stay proceedings - CPR 26.1(2) - CPR 26.3(1) - Fair Competition Act - Whether facts that 1st. Defendant is unlicensed is fatal to the claim - Whether Defendants interrelated parties within the meaning of the Act - Appeal in other proceedings challenging report - Whether report integral to claim - Whether claim should be stayed pending appeal.

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