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Uncertainty remains over whether Bermuda will get its own arbitration centre, the Minister of Public Works admitted yesterday. The centre in Hamilton, to be named after a former president of the Bermuda Industrial Union and a past Progressive Labour ...

A grandmother who hoped her granddaughter would become a lawyer got her wish at a ceremony in the Supreme Court as Nicole Yearwood joined the Bermuda Bar. Ms Yearwood was embarking on a career at a major Bermuda reinsurance firm when her experiences ...

When she was six, Chardonnai Hughes wrote on her student-of-the-month poster that she wanted to become a lawyer – a picture of it sent by her mother helped motivate her thought the difficult times as she completed her legal journey to join the Bermud...

A new lawyer joined the Bar in a ceremony packed with family and friends at the Supreme Court on Friday. Tashae Trott thanked Sophia Greaves, director of the corporate department at Conyers Dill & Pearman, for inspiring her at age 16 to pursue law. M...

A court battle between neighbours that is “probably running into the millions” of dollars could be settled by the litigants themselves, the Supreme Court heard. Puisne Judge Larry Mussenden told the latest hearing over a boundary dispute between the ...

A woman who said she accidentally brought a pistol magazine with bullets to the island embraced her family outside Magistrates’ Court yesterday after she was handed a conditional discharge for the offence. Rhea Virgil, 23, a Bermudian who lives in Lo...

A legal landmark could be set by a fresh trial ordered for a man whose conviction was struck down this year after he was jailed nearly a decade ago for a gun murder. The Court of Appeal found that a retrial for Devon Hewey, who was accused in the pre...

A man who claimed he was “set ablaze and tortured” for losing a consignment of drugs has been accused of fabricating his story to obtain a new life overseas through witness protection. Jamar Malik Dill told a Supreme Court jury that he was beaten and...

Legislation striking out blame in divorce proceedings offers an “awesome opportunity” to introduce mediation between separating couples to reduce trauma for their children, the island’s legal fraternity has been told. Puisne Judge Nicole Stoneham, wh...

A new and friendlier look is coming for the island’s family courts, court registrar Alexandra Domingues told a judicial seminar on Friday. Ms Domingues said that the family courts at present were all too often “a very uncomfortable space to be”. “The...