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The Government has moved to block a judicial review into how it signed a controversial deal without putting the contract out to tender. The Cabinet Office ministry signed a deal with Florida-based shipper Access USA through the Post Office in May, 20...

A man will stand trial in the Supreme Court this autumn after he denied a string of historic sexual misconduct charges. The 68-year-old, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, yesterday pleaded not guilty to six counts of indecent exposure to th...

Beaming new lawyer Gabrielle Moniz aspired to a future in human rights law as she celebrated her Call to the Bar on Friday. Ms Moniz, 25, the daughter of former attorney-general Trevor Moniz, was Called to the Bar last month after completing her pupi...

A British man who smuggled almost $500,000 of drugs has been jailed for five-and-a-half years

Two top lawyers have backed a move to offer increased sentencing discounts to defendants who plead guilty to offences. Justice Shade Subair Williams announced the initiative on Tuesday after consultation with the Department of Public Prosecutions and...

The One Bermuda Alliance has warned that offering discounted prison sentences to people who plead guilty immediately for certain offences in the Supreme Court must be handled with care. Scott Pearman, the Opposition’s legal affairs spokesman, said T...

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...