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A former Spanish beauty queen -- the wife of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza -- is playing a leading role in a family court battle about to be fought in Bermuda, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The story, which appeared on June 9, descri...
DATE: Jun 16, 1999
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Bermuda Constitution protects journalists from having to reveal the names of their sources.
Observers commented that yesterday's decision by Puisne Judge Vincent Meerabux helps establish in Bermuda a "shield'' law for the press.
Supreme Court Puisne ...
DATE: Jun 10, 1999
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A former Royal Gazette business reporter faces seven days in prison for refusing to reveal his sources in stories he wrote on Bermuda Fire & Marine Co. Ltd.
Reporter David Marchant yesterday refused to answer questions in court about whether informat...
DATE: Jun 09, 1999
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Puisne Judge Vincent Meerabux this morning under orders to answer questions requesting the names of sources for stories he wrote on Bermuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co. Ltd.
Reporter David Marchant yesterday refused to reveal the sources during his te...
DATE: Jun 08, 1999
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A former Bermuda Fire & Marine Ltd. life actuary yesterday described in Supreme Court his increasing worries about the solvency of the company leading up to the 1991 hiving off of the domestic business to BF&M Ltd.
During his dealings with Bermuda Fi...
DATE: Jun 04, 1999
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The spectre of 870 BF&M Ltd. shareholders appearing in Supreme Court to testify about whether or not they knew Bermuda Fire & Insurance Co. Ltd. was insolvent in 1991, was raised in court yesterday.
If the company's liquidator wins the current case u...
DATE: Jun 03, 1999
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Cooper & Lines auditors involved in the 1991 reorganisation of Bermuda Fire & Marine Co. Ltd. were yesterday likened to "mechanics'' who worked on instructions and therefore cannot be held responsible for the 1993 collapse of the company, a court hea...
DATE: Jun 02, 1999
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Bermuda Fire & Marine Co. Ltd. auditor Cooper & Lines did not believe that the company was insolvent or that the 1991 reorganisation would harm international creditors, a court heard yesterday.
Ian Croxford, lawyer for Cooper & Lines, yesterday denie...
DATE: Jun 01, 1999
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today in defence of the allegations of professional negligence made against the firm by the liquidators of Bermuda Fire & Marine Company Ltd.
The other three defendants before him will have passed on to him by implication a heavy ball with which to c...
DATE: May 31, 1999
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Allegations of professional negligence against Conyers Dill & Pearman -- and lawyer John Collis in particular -- are without foundation because at all times proper legal advice was given regarding the 1991 split of Bermuda Fire & Marine Co. Ltd., a c...
DATE: May 28, 1999
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