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A graduate of the pupillage programme at law firm Appleby has been Called to the Bar. Ashley Bento spent the first 12 months of her two-year training stint at the firm in the corporate and insurance departments. Ms Bento now works with John Wasty, th...

A woman who admitted stealing more than $110,000 from her employers was sentenced to a year in jail at the Supreme Court yesterday. But Acting Puisne Judge Juan Wolffe suspended six months of Deidre Woolgar’s sentence for two years. Mr Justice Wolff...

Six motorists were fined $1,500 each and banned from the roads for 18 months after they admitted impaired driving charges in Magistrates’ Court. Magistrate Maxanne Anderson heard that motorcyclist Cesar Zepeda Gonzalez, 21, from St George’s, was invo...

The significance of Chief Justice Narinder Hargun’s ruling that Bermuda’s jury selection process ran counter to the Constitution extended beyond the island, a defence lawyer said yesterday. Mark Pettingill said: “It is a hugely significant and in-dep...

A coronavirus-compliant courtroom at Sessions House is to be created so backlogged Supreme Court criminal trials can go ahead, a government minister has revealed. Neville Tyrrell, the Acting Minister of Public Works, said: “Funding has been identifie...

A Supreme Court judge highlighted yesterday the continued failure by the Government to set up coronavirus-compliant courtrooms for criminal trials. Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons said she was keen to set trial dates for 19 cases. But she told Mark...

A prominent former cricketer has been sentenced to two years’ probation after admitting an assault on his father. Chris Foggo, 38, a former St George’s Cup Match and Bermuda wicketkeeper-batsman, appeared for sentencing in Magistrates’ Court last Fri...

A 54-year-old woman was sentenced to two years’ probation in the Supreme Court yesterday after Acting Puisne Judge Juan Wolffe ruled against a defence lawyer’s submission in favour of a publication ban. Mary-Beth Sherwin, from Paget, was found guilty...

A teenager was sentenced to two years’ probation yesterday after pleading guilty to a trio of offences in Magistrates’ Court. Tejai Ford, 17, of Warwick appeared for sentencing before senior magistrate Juan Wolffe. Ford was the pillion passenger on a...