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Civil procedure [2025] SCSC 85

Seychelles International Mercantile Banking Corporation Limited v Bastienne & Anor (CM 06 OF 2024)

Seychelles International Mercantile Banking Corporation Limited v Bastienne & Anor (CM 06 OF 2024) [2025] SCSC 85 (23 June 2025)

The Supreme Court dismissed an execution debtor’s application to postpone a judicial sale, finding no strong grounds of necessity or expediency under section 36.

  • Judicial sale
  • Postponement of sale
  • Immovable property
  • Judicial-sale
  • Postponement-of-sale
  • Immovable-property
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Criminal law [2025] SCSC 86

R v Payet & Anor (FH 18 of 2025)

R v Payet & Anor (FH 18 of 2025) [2025] SCSC 86 (13 June 2025)

Given the seriousness of the offences, risk of interference with investigation and witnesses, existence of other suspects at large, and the complexity of the international investigation, the Court finds that remand in custody for both suspects is justified despite the 1st suspect's pregnancy.

  • Remand
  • Trafficking in persons
  • Conspiracy to import controlled drugs
  • Bail
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Succession law [2025] SCSC 89

Quatre & Anor v The Curator (MC 67 of 2024)

Quatre & Anor v The Curator (MC 67 of 2024) [2025] SCSC 89 (13 June 2025)

The Supreme Court vested absentee co-owners’ shares in parcel C1417 in the Curator under section 6(1) of the Curatelle Act, 2021, after diligent search efforts failed.

  • Vesting of property of absentees
  • Curatelle act application
  • Rectification of land register
  • Absentee property rights
  • Curatelle-act
  • Absentee-property
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Civil procedure [2025] SCSC 88

AG v Krishna Mart & Company Proprietary Limited (MA 55 of 2025)

AG v Krishna Mart & Company Proprietary Limited (MA 55 of 2025) [2025] SCSC 88 (13 June 2025)

Service cannot be properly effected on a director of the respondent company outside jurisdiction; the law requires service at the registered or principal office. However, given the exceptional circumstances and the inability to serve the company, leave to appeal is granted against the order dismissing substituted service.

  • Service of process
  • Substituted service
  • Leave to appeal
  • Service on companies
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Civil procedure [2025] SCSC 87

Aux Cayes Fintech Co. Ltd v Liu (MA 309 of 2024 (Arising in CS 125 of 2023))

Aux Cayes Fintech Co. Ltd v Liu (MA 309 of 2024 (Arising in CS 125 of 2023)) [2025] SCSC 87 (12 June 2025)

The questions involved in the proposed appeal are arguable and not frivolous, and therefore ought to be the subject matter of an appeal. The court grants leave without determining the merits or chances of success.

  • Security for costs
  • Leave to appeal
  • Interlocutory orders
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Tort law [2025] SCSC 83

Gregoire’s Company Limited v Payet (MA 16 of 2025)

Gregoire’s Company Limited v Payet (MA 16 of 2025) [2025] SCSC 83 (12 June 2025)

The Supreme Court dismissed a company’s trespass claim and injunction request, finding the defendant had consent to occupy the house and no proven damages.

  • Trespass
  • Faute (delict)
  • Damages
  • Injunctions
  • Delict
  • Civil-procedure
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Criminal law [2025] SCSC 84

R v D’unienville & Ors (CO 03 of 2025)

R v D’unienville & Ors (CO 03 of 2025) [2025] SCSC 84 (12 June 2025)

The court ordered supervised access to digital evidence for remanded accused persons to support trial preparation, subject to strict security and prison protocols.

  • Disclosure of evidence
  • Fair trial rights
  • Access to evidence
  • Digital evidence
  • Digital-evidence
  • Fair-trial-rights
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Criminal law [2025] SCSC 80

R v D’unienville & Ors (CO 03 of 2025)

R v D’unienville & Ors (CO 03 of 2025) [2025] SCSC 80 (5 June 2025)

No material change in circumstances has been demonstrated; the seriousness of the offence, the accused's deeper involvement, and public interest outweigh arguments for bail. The amendment to the predicate offence does not diminish the gravity of money laundering or justify release.

  • Bail
  • Money laundering
  • Remand
  • Equal protection
  • Change of circumstances
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Constitutional law [2025] SCCC 4

Soopramanien v Government of Seychelles & Ors (MA 12 of 2025 (Arising in CP 05 of 2024))

Soopramanien v Government of Seychelles & Ors (MA 12 of 2025 (Arising in CP 05 of 2024)) [2025] SCCC 4 (5 June 2025)

The Constitutional Court of Seychelles granted urgency, disclosure and a second opinion, but refused an order for overseas medical treatment for a prisoner.

  • Prisoners' rights
  • Right to health care
  • Right to dignity
  • Medical treatment for prisoners
  • Overseas medical treatment
  • Judicial review of administrative action
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Case law [2025] SCSC 81

R v Wairimu (CO 90 of 2023)

R v Wairimu (CO 90 of 2023) [2025] SCSC 81 (3 June 2025)

Supreme Court judgment in R v Wairimu. The available record provides only case metadata, not the substantive facts, issues, or disposition.

  • Legal-procedure
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