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No Judicial Review to contest PSC nomination
The nomination by the Public Service Commission (PSC) of Mrs Manogary Rangasamy as Principal Arts Officer of the Ministry of Arts and Culture has been maintained by the Supreme Court in a recent...
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ABC Ltd and not Dr Siddick Chady can sue MCB and Gangoosirdar
Medical Centre (ABC) Ltd, plaintiff No 1, represented by Mohummud Siddick Chady, former minister of Public Infrastructure and ex-Chairman of Mauritius Ports’ Authority (MPA), can sue the Mauritius...
View ArticleInterlocutory injunction against PADCO to operate cranes after 6 PM
Justice Rehana Mungly-Gulbul sitting in Chambers has made interlocutory the interim order prayed for by C.Y. Kwong Ah Fong and Miss Kristel Foong Chue-Ah Fong, the proprietors of a six-storeyed...
View ArticleAppeal Court upholds ARC VAT ruling
Formation Recrutement et Conseil Informatique Limitée (FRCI) must pay Value Added Tax (VAT) on money the company received from two foreign based non-resident companies, namely Microsoft Ireland...
View ArticleAppeal Court quashes conviction and refers case back to trial Court
In a well motivated judgment delivered last week the Appeal Court, having on the bench Justices Nalini Matadeen and Saheed Bhaukaurally, has quashed the sentence passed by the Intermediate Court...
View ArticleEx-UOM student sentenced to 37 years’ imprisonment
One week after the Presiding Judge of the Assises Court, Benjamin Marie Joseph, has set aside the motion of “no case to answer of counsel for the defense, Mr Siv Potayya, the accused, Avinash Ramgotee,...
View Article26 years’ penal servitude for drug trafficker maintained
The Full Bench of the Supreme Court sitting on appeal two weeks ago has set aside the appeal lodged by drugs trafficker, L.D.L. Fangamar, who is presently serving a 26-year penal servitude after he was...
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Appeal Court orders Medical Council to register psychiatry specialist
The Appeal Court, constituted of the Chief Justice, Bernard Yeung Sik Yuen and Justice Eddy Balancy, has last week quashed the decision of the Medical Council not to register Dr Joseph Alfred Lee Shou...
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Air Mauritius cannot evoke Code du Commerce to escape responsibility
The Intermediate Court Civil Division having on the bench the Acting Magistrate, P. Sewpal, has last week set aside the point of law raised by Defendant No 2, Air Mauritius, in the Plaint with summons...
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Ghoorbin to stand trial at 88
Seewooduth Ghoorbin, aged 88, who stands charged with having on 13 October 2010, criminally and willfully killed one Rajesh Sharma Nathooram in breach of Section 215 and 223(3) of the Criminal Code,...
View ArticlePrivy Council: MRA loses appeal against Paradis Brabant Hotel
The Mauritius Revenue Authority (MRA) has lost its appeal before the judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC). In a ruling delivered recently, the Board of the Privy Council with a majority of...
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Ex-Deputy Commissioner of ICAC loses claim for damages
The former Deputy Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), Moussa Taujoo has lost his case for damages to the tune of Rs 34 million against ICAC and the State of Mauritius...
View ArticleJudge refuses to issue interlocutory order against Emtel
Justice Ashraf Caunhye sitting in Chambers has refused to convert an interim order into an interlocutory one, forbidding Emtel Ltd & Anors: (a) to proceed with the erection of a telecommunication...
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Three security guards found guilty of larceny with violence
Three security guards, Jayprakash Nundun, Jean-Laval François and Laval Desiré François have been found guilty of larceny with violence by the Acting Senior District Magistrate, Mrs Padmini Mauree,...
View ArticleDriver should have been prosecuted for using his car as a bus
The District Court of Souillac having on the bench the Acting Senior District Magistrate Mrs Padmini Mauree. In a judgment delivered last week she has acquitted driver Abdool Masood Bolaky sued for...
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Police should have warned drunk driver of consequences of not giving blood...
Pursuant to section 123 H (5) of the Road Traffic Act, it is the duty of the police to warn the offender that refusing to give a sample of his blood can play against him in case he is being sued and...
View ArticleCourt orders eviction of two tenants for breach of agreement
The District Court of Flacq having on the bench District Magistrate Ranjeeta Rajkularsingh in a judgment delivered last week has ordered the eviction of two tenants GVT Company Ltd and Top Shop Co. Ltd...
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No private work allowed for Fireman Bheekharry
Firemen employed in the Government Fire Services are not allowed to work in a private firm even after their normal working hours. This ruling has been upheld in an application for judicial review...
View ArticleAppeal Court upholds ARC ruling : Land Transfer Tax and Registration Duty are...
The Appeal Court, constituted of Justices Mrs Saheeda Peeroo and Gérard Angoh, has dismissed with costs the appeal lodged by Chandrika Ramphul against the Registrar General and upheld the decision of...
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Magistrate non-suits MPL’s plaint against tenant
Magistrate Mrs Sheila Bonomally, sitting at the Intermediate Court Civil Division, has allowed the Municipality of Port Louis (MPL) to lodge a new plaint with summons against the defendant, Ateliers...
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