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Civil procedure [2025] JRC 053

Dentskevich v Strachan (Royal Court : Hearing

Dentskevich v Strachan (Royal Court : Hearing (Civil)) [2025] JRC 053 (25 February 2025)

The Royal Court refused a split trial in a personal injury claim, finding liability and quantum remained intertwined. It also amended case-management directions.

  • Split trial
  • Case management
  • Contributory negligence
  • Medical evidence
  • Compliance with court orders
  • Split-trial
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Civil procedure [2024] JRC 127

MacLeod v The Channel Islands Cooperative Society Limited

MacLeod v The Channel Islands Cooperative Society Limited [2024] JRC 127 (05 June 2024)

Costs judgment in a Jersey personal injury case concerning discovery. The court made mixed costs orders, declined indemnity costs, and postponed enforcement until the end of the proceedings.

  • Costs
  • Discovery
  • Practice directions
  • Enforcement of costs orders
  • Specific-discovery
  • E-discovery
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Civil procedure [2024] JRC 109

MacLeod v The Channel Islands Cooperative Society Limited

MacLeod v The Channel Islands Cooperative Society Limited [2024] JRC 109 (13 May 2024)

Interlocutory Jersey decision on late specific discovery, e-discovery, and witness evidence in a workplace stress claim.

  • Specific discovery
  • E-discovery
  • Extension of time
  • Witness statements
  • Workplace stress
  • Document preservation
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Tort [2024] JRC 076

Carvalho v Love

Carvalho v Love [2024] JRC 076 (02 April 2024)

A Jersey personal injury judgment after an admitted rear-end collision, awarding damages for whiplash-type neck and shoulder injury, psychological harm, past loss of earnings, and future earning disadvantage.

  • Negligence
  • Damages
  • Mitigation of loss
  • Loss of earnings
  • Whiplash injury
  • Psychological injury
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Tort law

Chivers v Da Silva Araujo

On a preliminary issue in this road-traffic claim, the Royal Court held the defendant negligent for failing to keep a proper lookout, while reserving contributory negligence.

  • Negligence
  • Duty of care
  • Standard of driving
  • Pedestrian crossing collisions
  • Contributory negligence
  • Cyclist safety
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Tort [2024] JRC 058

Chivers v Da Silva Araujo

Chivers v Da Silva Araujo [2024] JRC 058 (13 March 2024)

The Royal Court found the defendant negligent after he failed to keep a proper lookout and struck a cyclist crossing at a signal-controlled crossing.

  • Negligence
  • Contributory negligence
  • Duty of care
  • Standard of care
  • Pedestrian and cyclist accidents
  • Road-traffic-accident
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Civil procedure [2023] JRC 146

Brennan v Equiom Crewing - Burkut IC - 14 Aug-2023

Brennan v Equiom Crewing - Burkut IC - 14 Aug-2023 [2023] JRC 146 (14 August 2023)

The Royal Court refused security for costs against a non-resident plaintiff in a personal injury claim, finding no realistic prospect of an enforceable costs order beyond QOCS limits.

  • Security for costs
  • Qualified one-way costs shifting (qocs)
  • Non-resident plaintiffs
  • Royal court rules
  • Security-for-costs
  • Qocs
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Tort [2022] JRC 246

Piechota v The Jersey Royal Company Limited

Piechota v The Jersey Royal Company Limited [2022] JRC 246 (08 November 2022)

The court held that most of the claimant’s ongoing pain and disability stemmed from family stress rather than the accident, limiting damages to accident-related loss.

  • Whiplash injury
  • Somatic symptom disorder
  • Causation
  • Quantum of damages
  • Loss of earnings
  • Pain and suffering
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Maritime law [2022] JRC 238

Corbin v Dorynek and Flath

Corbin v Dorynek and Flath [2022] JRC 238 (03 November 2022)

The Royal Court of Jersey refused to order a preliminary issue on maritime limitation liability, holding that it would likely delay quantum and be unfair to the plaintiff.

  • Limitation of liability
  • Definition of ship
  • Preliminary issues
  • Case management
  • Preliminary-issues
  • Maritime-law
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Civil procedure [2022] JRC 085

Corbin v Dorynek and Anor

Corbin v Dorynek and Anor [2022] JRC 085 (08 April 2022)

Royal Court of Jersey costs judgment after a personal injury trial. The court declined indemnity costs, ordered standard-basis costs to be apportioned, and made no order on certain applications.

  • Costs
  • Apportionment of liability
  • Standard vs indemnity basis
  • Contributory negligence
  • Indemnity-costs
  • Apportionment-of-liability
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