Debayo Adedipe

Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision

This is a Jamaican Supreme Court (Commercial Division) civil judgment between the National Commercial Bank Staff Association and NCB Jamaica Ltd concerning whether interest on a judgment should be compound or simple. It is NOT a lawyer-discipline decision; no attorney was charged, no professional misconduct breaches were considered, and no dishonesty or integrity findings were made. Sykes J held that compound interest was unavailable because it had been neither pleaded nor proved (following the Privy Council in the NHT case affirming Sempra Metals), and that simple interest at a commercial rate (the borrowing rate derived from the Bank of Jamaica statistical digest, not the treasury bill rate) applied from 1 October 2002 to the date of payment. Costs were ordered to be costs in the claim.