Tag: Cayman Islands Court of Appeal

Three years cut from killer’s minimum life tariff

Three years cut from killer’s minimum life tariff

| 26/01/2024 | 8 Comments

(CNS): William Ian Rivers (45), who was told he would have to serve at least 35 years in jail for murdering Mark Travis Seymour (39) in January 2017, has had that life sentence tariff reduced by the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal to 32 years. In September 2018, a jury convicted Rivers of gunning down […]

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Appeal court finds BoR doesn’t protect charity workers

Appeal court finds BoR doesn’t protect charity workers

| 24/01/2024 | 18 Comments

(CNS): A woman who was fired from a non-profit organisation but had won a partial legal victory regarding her labour rights has lost to the government in the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal. The Grand Court had found that the Labour Act is incompatible with the Bill of Rights because anyone working for an NPO […]

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Appeal court blocks JCPC bid over civil partnerships

Appeal court blocks JCPC bid over civil partnerships

| 27/10/2023 | 40 Comments

(CNS): An attempt by Kattina Anglin to take the challenge against local civil partnership legislation all the way to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) has been rejected by the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal. Anglin’s appeal challenging the findings of an earlier judicial review over whether or not the governor has the […]

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NCC prevails in legal battle with CPA

NCC prevails in legal battle with CPA

| 01/09/2023 | 86 Comments

(CNS): The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal has dismissed the Central Planning Authority’s appeal challenging a direction from the National Conservation Council that it should not grant planning permission for the redevelopment of a beachfront cabana on Boggy Sand Beach. The high court confirmed on Friday that the National Conservation Act provides the NCC with […]

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Nightclub killer’s jail time cut by two years

Nightclub killer’s jail time cut by two years

| 06/07/2023 | 9 Comments

(CNS): Mason Courtney Bryan (28)’s ten-year prison sentence for killing Recardo Lionel Pars (27) outside a nightclub complex at The Strand plaza during a fight has been cut to eight years after it was appealed. The Court of Appeal ruled this week that the provocation by the victim was substantial and Bryan’s response in the […]

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Governor had power to pass civil partnership act

Governor had power to pass civil partnership act

| 04/07/2023 | 88 Comments

(CNS): The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal brought by a local Christian group challenging the governor’s power to enact the Civil Partnership Act in 2020 after parliament voted down a government bill. The appeal court, which had already directed the government to deal with the lack of legislation to uphold LGBT […]

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Arsonist’s appeal over police office fire fails

Arsonist’s appeal over police office fire fails

| 24/05/2023 | 11 Comments

(CNS): The man who set fire to the police records office and business centre at the Windjammer Plaza on Walkers Road and torched an abandoned car has failed in his attempt to overturn his 2022 conviction. An appeal by Rupert Junior Spence (36), who is serving a six-and-a-half-year prison sentence, was refused, according to newly […]

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CICA: Police ‘entitled to protection’ from gunmen

CICA: Police ‘entitled to protection’ from gunmen

| 16/05/2023 | 20 Comments

(CNS): The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal found that a judge who had added four years to a ten-year sentence handed to one of two robbers who shot at police officers as they tried to escape was entitled to do so because it was a separate crime. The higher court refused an appeal last week […]

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Hill appeals 2020 conviction over podcast

Hill appeals 2020 conviction over podcast

| 05/05/2023 | 72 Comments

(CNS): Sandra Hill, the host of Cayman Marl Road, is defending herself in the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal against a conviction in 2020 for abusing and harassing on an ICT network in connection with a podcast in which she accused local businessman Matthew Leslie of being a sexual predator. This was the first time […]

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Acquisition lacked transparency in road dispute

Acquisition lacked transparency in road dispute

| 05/04/2023 | 25 Comments

(CNS): An appeal by a group of West Bay landowners who challenged the government over land seized from them for a public road around Lissa Lane has ended with a declaration that the planning ministry’s failure to publicise the consultation on the acquisition did not comply with the Constitution. The Court of Appeal nevertheless upheld […]

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Anglin’s life tariff upheld in nightclub murder

Anglin’s life tariff upheld in nightclub murder

| 08/03/2023 | 19 Comments

(CNS): Devon Anglin (36) has been denied leave to appeal a 30-year life sentence he is serving for the murder of Carlos Webster (35) in 2009. The three-decade prison term is the statutory recommended time for any life sentence for murder, and in a judgment delivered on Tuesday following an application last year, the court […]

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