Esheria Jersey Case Law
Sign in
Jersey Source-linked decisions Coverage checked

Jersey Case Law

Search judgments by proposition, citation, court, judge or legal topic, then move directly into the source-grounded case analysis.

Courts on this page
0 court collections
Last checked

Search and filter Jersey case law

Results update automatically as you type.

Jersey decisions

Decisions matching the current search

Clear filters
Insolvency [2016] JCA 025

Investec Bank (Channel Islands) Limited -v- Booth

Investec Bank (Channel Islands) Limited -v- Booth [2016] JCA 025 (27 January 2016)

The Court of Appeal upheld a désastre for Mr Booth, holding that a debtor may apply before renunciation is ordered and that the modern law generally prefers désastre.

  • DĂ©sastre
  • DĂ©grèvement
  • Adjudication of renunciation
  • Secured creditors
  • Unsecured creditors
  • Discharge of debts
Read case analysis
Property law [2008] JCA 204

Burby v Thompson and Bertram

Burby v Thompson and Bertram [2008] JCA 204 (27 November 2008)

The Court of Appeal of Jersey held that Article 91 of the 1880 Property Law required only that a dégrèvement date be fixed within time, not that the hearing occur then.

  • DĂ©grèvement
  • Statutory time limits
  • Adjudication of renunciation
  • Court powers to adjourn
  • Creditor rights
  • Debtor rights
Read case analysis

About this LexChat collection

Jersey decisions are organised by court, judge, legal area and indexed issue so a practitioner can move from a proposition to a citable authority with the surrounding context intact.

Source links and collection timestamps are retained alongside the indexed records.