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Cabletron Network Systems Limited v Maud Interconnect Systems Limited and Home Time Entertainment Limited

Injunction - Application for Interim Injunction pursuant to Section 49(h) of the Judicature (Supreme Court) Act - Rules 17.1(a), 17.1(4) and 17.2 of the Civil Procedure Rules, 2002 - Whether there is a serious issue to be tried – Whether damages an adequate remedy - Balance of convenience - Preservation of status quo.

CVM Television Limited v The Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica

Judicial Review – Application for leave – Television station holder of exclusive
broadcasting rights to English Premier League matches – Customer complaints to
Regulator that applicant advertised matches not broadcast online - Regulator
decided applicant engaged in misleading advertising as matches not broadcast as
advertised – Suitability of alternate remedies – Grounds and evidence relied on by
applicant must disclose arguable case – Failing test of arguability is a bar to grant
of discretionary relief

Lewis, Priscilla v Wallace, Patrick and Rejiv Babooram

Civil Procedure Rules – Rule 13.3 – Setting aside default judgment – Whether affidavit sworn to by a party’s attorney-at-law amounts to an affidavit of merit – Rule 21.7 – Application to appoint representative of estate of deceased defendant – Whether sufficient proof of death in the absence of a death certificate – Whether Administrator General fit and proper person to be appointed as administrator ad litem.

Francis, Lans v Quest, Novel and Halicon Holdings Limited

Civil Procedure – Rule 26.3 of Civil Procedure Rules – Whether claim is an abuse of process; section 73 of the Judicature (Parish Court) Act – Whether section 73 operates to prevent the bringing of this claim in light of previous claim filed in the Parish Court – Whether claim should be struck out as disclosing no reasonable grounds for bringing claim - Whether the 1st defendant should be removed as a party.

Lewis, Nicole v Barbee-Wooten, Daphne1

Civil Practice and Procedure – Application to amend defence – Late stage amendment – Whether Amendment to defence permissible – Principles applicable to late stage amendment.

Civil Practice and Procedure – Commencement of action – Filing of claim form – Rule 8.1 – When is a claim commenced – Whether date for commencement of action can be extended under rule 3.2(5).

Outsourcing Managment International Inc. Limited (trading as Alliance One)

JUDICIAL REVIEW - Part 56 CPR –Order for Certiorari - Whether the award was illegal for being ultra vires Section 12(1), 12(4) (b), 12(4B) (b) and 12(5)(c)(i) of the Labour Relations and Industrial Disputes Act - Whether the award breached the Claimants’ right to a fair hearing guaranteed under Section 16(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights & Freedoms - Whether the award was unreasonable and or irrational.

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