2024

Contract – Loan – Promissory Notes – Whether loan repaid – Whether interest rate agreed – Whether documentation created a sham transaction – Whether illegality tainted contract – Whether evidence admissible – Stamp Duty Act – Whether documents improperly stamped – Whether late stamping permissible – Whether equitable mortgage created – Hearsay objections to witness statement – Failure to take objections at case management – Whether trial judge has discretion to refuse to entertain late application – Whether self-serving evidence of communication to a third party admissible – Whether trial j

Application to strike out a claim - Whether summary judgment is applicable to a claim for Defamation - The Defamation Act, 2013 and the limitation period created by the Act, the court’s power to extend the limitation period under the Defamation Act ,2013 - Whether the court has authority to extend the time for an applicant to challenge the court’s jurisdiction to hear a claim, breach of the implied term of trust and confidence in a contract of employment and the jurisdiction of the court to determine claims for breach of trust and confidence and wrongful dismissal

Civil Practice and Procedure – Application to strike out – Whether claim discloses reasonable grounds for bringing the claim.
Civil Practice and Procedure – Whether the present claim is an abuse of process of the Court.

Civil Practice and Procedure – Judgment after striking out – Rule 26.5 – Whether the claimant is entitled to judgment on terms against the 1st defendant on the facts pleaded.
Limitation of Actions – Whether Claimant’s Right to Recover Possession was extinguished in relation to the 1st Defendant.

Assessment of Damages –– Personal Injury –– Motor vehicle accident –– Negligence –– Pain and suffering and loss of amenities –– Special damages –– Soft tissue injury to left waist –– Multiple abrasions to skin –– Whiplash injury of cervical spine –– Traction brachial plexopathy –– Chronic Lumbosacral strain – – Bilateral Knee Medial Bursitis –– Left Metatarsalgia –– 3% whole person impairment.

Motor vehicle accident – Whether the defendant liable in negligence - Whether claimant contributory negligent

Sections 5, 6, 9 and 13 of the Justices of the Peace Act − The significance of the taking of the Oath of Office as a Justice of the Peace – The effect of a material non- disclosure on a claim for Legitimate Expectation – Section 16 (2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms.

Recovery of possession of land - Whether the registered proprietor is barred from seeking recovery of possession under sections 3 and 30 of the Limitation of Actions Act - Whether the registered proprietor’s rights and interest have been extinguished – Whether mesne profits are payable – Whether the lack of building approval should disentitle the defendant from a possessory title – Whether mesne profits are payable.

Claim for recovery of damages for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution
- Whether the defendant had imprisoned the claimant or whether the claimant was detained by the police - Whether the claimant was imprisoned in the absence of reasonable and probable cause - Whether the defendant
had prosecuted the claimant - Whether the claimant was prosecuted in the
absence of reasonable or probable cause - Whether the prosecution of the
claimant was actuated by malice.

Civil procedure – Application to set aside default judgment pursuant to rule 13.3 of the Civil Procedure Rules – Application to extend the validity of the Ancillary Claim Form – Application to extend the validity of the Ancillary Particulars of Claim – Whether the Defendant has a real prospect of successfully defending the claim – Whether the Defendant has a good explanation – Delay – Risk of prejudice.