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The Court of Appeal dismisses appeal and upholds the High Court's dismissal of the claim of a ship's port agent for disbursements made on behalf of a vessel which was under a time charter, on the grounds that the agent, who had provided services at the request of the charterers, not the owners, failed to establish any contractual relationship or personal liability on the part of the vessel's owners; and there was no evidence that the charterers were acting as agents for the owners or that the master of the vessel was involved in the transactions.

High Court sets aside a Circuit Court order and confirms that judgment creditors are entitled to examine company directors and seek discovery to aid in the execution of monetary judgments, on the grounds that the absence of explicit provisions in the Circuit Court Rules for such examinations does not preclude reliance on the Rules of the Superior Courts for this purpose; and there was no sufficient explanation for the delay in satisfying the judgment debt by the defendant company's directors.

High Court, by way of case stated, reverses the District Court's decision to acquit a company secretary charged with failing to produce documents to a Charities Regulatory Authority inspector, the District Court having previously acquitted the respondent based on the interpretation that third parties must be pre-notified of potential obligations under the applicable statute, on the grounds that this interpretation was incorrect, and inspectors had statutory powers to request information from third parties without prior notification.