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The trial of a man charged with murder has started in Supreme Court. Taaj Muhammad, 26, pleaded not guilty to the murder of Ronniko Burchall, who was 30, on December 30, 2018. Mr Muhammad, from St George, also pleaded not guilty to using a firearm to...

An application for a judicial review into the legitimacy of a Commission of Inquiry into land grabs could not be heard – because the island’s civil court judges were conflicted. Raymond Davis, also known as Khalid Wasi, said the failure to find an i...

Delays in criminal trials that caused a backlog of cases were yesterday blamed on lawyers. Chief Justice Narinder Hargun said members of the legal profession had failed to appear in court or submit documents in advance of trials. Mr Justice Hargun ad...

Research shows that people are more likely to breach quarantine if they are at home rather than under supervision in a government approved hotel, according to a lawyer. Delroy Duncan QC made the claim yesterday during the second day of a Supreme Cour...

A bid to temporarily block mandatory quarantine laws for travellers not vaccinated against Covid-19 was rejected because the applicants failed to show that they would suffer “irreparable harm” under the proposed law. At a hearing last Friday three pe...

A legal challenge to planned controversial public safety restrictions is scheduled to be heard in the Supreme Court today. Pressure group Constitutional Freedom Bermuda filed a summons yesterday to ask for an injunction against the Government propos...

Lawyers for a pressure group who want to block planned compulsory coronavirus quarantines at hotels are expected to apply for an interim injunction today, The Royal Gazette can reveal. The news came after Constitutional Freedom Bermuda hit its target...

A Government MP and his daughter appeared in Supreme Court yesterday charged with misleading a public official over a dinner at a restaurant last year. It is alleged Zane DeSilva, his daughter Zara Harper, and a third defendant, Angela Caldwell provi...

A lawyer hired by a pressure group to challenge the Government over planned Covid-19 public safety regulations has withdrawn from the case. Charles Richardson represented Constitutional Freedom Bermuda, which argued that the regulations, to be introd...

A campaign to mount a legal challenge to tougher quarantine regulations for unvaccinated arrivals has raised more than $25,000 in just four days. Constitutional Freedom Bermuda, a pressure group, launched the fundraising effort last Friday after it h...