Tag: Sir John Goldring

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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Gov’t breach of rights ‘unsatisfactory’

Gov’t breach of rights ‘unsatisfactory’

| 29/08/2019 | 94 Comments

(CNS): No matter what the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal decides about the chief justice’s decision to amend the law to introduce same-sex marriage, the appeal court president has made it clear that government’s failure to provide a mechanism to recognise same-sex relationships in law is “unsatisfactory”. Sir John Goldring, the justice leading the panel […]

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