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Two men appeared in Magistrates Court yesterday accused of attacking another man with a machete. Shae Hassell, 20, and Jordon Thompson-Parris, 21, were charged with robbing Joshua Iris with force, as well as wounding him and damaging his watch and ca...

A 50-year-old man who admitted being impaired when he was involved in a traffic accident was banned from the roads yesterday for 18 months. Magistrates Court heard that police were called to St Mark’s Road in Smith’s after they were alerted to a sing...

The Supreme Court has offered to cut sentences for guilty pleas on certain offences to clear a backlog of cases

A legal challenge to mandatory Covid-19 testing for school pupils before they can return to the classroom has suffered a defeat in the Supreme Court. The case for the parent, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was brought last month against a dec...

The Supreme Court has rejected a bid to seize $400,000 from the wife of a man convicted of money laundering in Ecuador. The court heard that the money was transferred into a SunLife account owned by Esmeralda Patino in 2015. While Ms Patino said the ...

A man who trespassed onto Government House to speak to the Governor was sent yesterday to Mental Health Treatment Court. Magistrates Court heard that Danyon Looby, 46, went to the grounds of Government House on February 21 and tried to speak to Rena ...

A St George’s man was yesterday sentenced to spend at least 35 years behind bars for the 2018 fatal shooting of Ronniko Burchall. Taaj Muhammad was given a life sentence for what prosecutors branded a “public execution” and ordered to serve at least ...

After a difficult struggle, Mahogany Bean said she was honoured to become the newest member of the Bermuda Bar. Ms Bean, a Berkeley Institute graduate, told the Supreme Court at her Call to the Bar on Thursday: “I’m blessed and grateful to have final...

An exempted Bermuda company linked to a Texan billionaire accused of a massive tax fraud has been named in a federal bankruptcy court in the United States. Joint liquidators of Point Investments Ltd have applied to the court in Delaware to have it re...

A man this week admitted causing a boat crash that killed a passenger. Mikado Burchall, 35, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court on Thursday to killing Adrian Hassell, 24, while dangerously piloting a boat. The incident happened on New Year’s Day, 201...