Jcpc

A&L Goodbody's Sarah Murphy, Simon Barber, Darragh Muldoon, Rachel Kemp and Rebecca Clark examine a landmark ruling abolishing the long-standing ‘shareholder rule’ in England and Wales. Directors have a duty to act in the best interests of the company, but they must also comply with

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) will sit in the Cayman Islands from 15–18 November, the first time it has sat in an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. The JCPC is the highest court of appeal for many Commonwealth countries, as well as the UK’s overseas territori

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) should be abolished as the highest court of appeal for Commonwealth countries, a prominent black barrister in London has said. Leslie Thomas QC told The Times that the British court was one of the "last vestiges of colonialism" and had been supersed

British judges have upheld Bermuda's ban on same-sex marriage as constitutional in a challenge brought to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC), which remains the island territory's highest court of appeal. The JCPC, based in London, is the highest court of appeal for British Overseas T