When does a right to an appeal mean you don’t have a right to an appeal? What makes an argument “devoid of merit” as opposed to just weak? This week, we consider those questions. Plus, a brief introduction to Caymanian business licensing!
Link to Case: [2025] UKPC 58, Cay (https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKPC/2025/58.html)
Legal Style Blog homepage (https://www.legalstyle.co.uk/)
Twitter: @legalstyleblog (https://twitter.com/legalstyleblog)
E-mail: editor@legalstyle.co.uk (mailto:editor@legalstyle.co.uk)
Legal Style Blog Guide to Uniform Privy Council Citations (https://www.legalstyle.co.uk/2022/04/a-proposed-standard-for-uniform.html?m=1)
20 Jan 2026
Director, Mauritius Revenue Authority v de Senneville
What do you do when you have no law and no facts? Try to create new facts! Listen to find out why this approach doesn’t work, the advantages of just settling when a case is hopeless, and the problems of claiming an argument was raised below when it wasn’t.
Link to Case: [2025] UKPC 57, Mrc (https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKPC/2025/57.html)
Legal Style Blog homepage (https://www.legalstyle.co.uk/)
Twitter: @legalstyleblog (https://twitter.com/legalstyleblog)
E-mail: editor@legalstyle.co.uk (mailto:editor@legalstyle.co.uk)
Legal Style Blog Guide to Uniform Privy Council Citations (https://www.legalstyle.co.uk/2022/04/a-proposed-standard-for-uniform.html?m=1)
9 Jul 2025
Anglin v Governor of the Cayman Islands [2025] UKPC 30, Cay
This week, constitutional law! When can the Governor of a British Overseas Territory just write and enact a law? When can the King? How does this extreme power for the Crown to just make laws fit into the constitutional framework of overseas territories? And what exactly does ‘external affairs’ mean?
Link to Cas (https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKPC/2025/22.html)e: [2025] UKPC 30, Cay (https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKPC/2025/30.html)
Legal Style Blog homepage (https://www.legalstyle.co.uk/)
Twitter: @legalstyleblog (https://twitter.com/legalstyleblog)
E-mail: editor@legalstyle.co.uk (mailto:editor@legalstyle.co.uk)
Legal Style Blog Guide to Uniform Privy Council Citations (https://www.legalstyle.co.uk/2022/04/a-proposed-standard-for-uniform.html?m=1)
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