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A woman who said she had been sexually assaulted for years as a child insisted yesterday that her memories were clear despite being “very fragmented”.
The woman, now 35, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the Supreme Court that she remembere...
DATE: Apr 06, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A hearing into the legality of a Commission of Inquiry into allegations of land grabs will be held in the summer.
The hearing was ordered after Raymond Davis, also known as Khalid Wasi, and Myron Piper, asked for a judicial review of the commission i...
DATE: Apr 05, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Supreme Court services hit by the Covid-19 pandemic are getting back to normal, officials said today.
Office hours were cut in January after the court system suffered “extreme staff shortages”.
But a court circular revealed that the Supreme Court and...
DATE: Apr 05, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
An 81-year-old taxi driver has been banned from driving after she admitted blame for an accident that punctured the lung of a motorcycle rider
DATE: Apr 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man who killed his father has apologised to his family for the frenzied knife attack that led to his death.
Tyshaun Brown told the Supreme Court that he was sorry for the trauma he had inflicted.
He said: “I would like to apologise to my family for...
DATE: Apr 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Police confirmed yesterday that they will look into the case of a senior government lawyer who failed to pay $52,000 in stamp duty for clients after a Supreme Court judgment against him.
A police spokesman said that the Commissioner of Police had rec...
DATE: Apr 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A police officer admitted yesterday that he threatened his wife and caused more than $1,000 worth of damage to her car.
Sean Kelly, 40, pleaded guilty to using threatening words and causing $1,225 of damage to Rebekah Kelly’s car on October 9, 2019 i...
DATE: Apr 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man who crashed his bike into a side walk on Christmas night has been banned from the roads for 18 months.
Karthikeyna Kadirvelu, 34, from Pembroke, pleaded guilty today in Magistrates’ Court to a charge that he had care and control of a vehicle wh...
DATE: Apr 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A judge has ordered that a dispute between a senior Government lawyer and former clients be referred to the police after the lawyer pledged to repay the clients more than $70,000.
The Supreme Court heard that lawyer Myron Simmons, who is a senior Cro...
DATE: Mar 31, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A woman told a court yesterday that she was sexually assaulted at least four times by a tenant in her family home and that the abuse started when she was just four years old.
The woman, now 35, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the Supreme ...
DATE: Mar 31, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson