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Two defendants who denied conspiring to smuggle $173,000 worth of heroin into Bermuda will face trial in the Supreme Court in September. Tyrone Burchall, 49, from Southampton, and Angela Simmons, 57, from Devonshire, both pleaded not guilty yesterday...

A man jailed for murder almost a decade ago has had his conviction quashed after the island’s final appeal court ruled that a judge gave improper directions about gunshot residue evidence. Devon Hewey was sentenced to life imprisonment in February 20...

A civil servant rejected for the role of Director of Parks has launched an appeal against a court decision ordering that her application should return to the Public Service Commission for consideration. The Supreme Court ruled last year that the PSC ...

A man who faked Covid-19 test results to avoid attendance at the Drug Treatment Court has been jailed for four months

A woman inspired by her Supreme Court judge cousin to study law was yesterday called to the Bar. Roshanda Smith, 26, joined the profession watched by family and friends as well as by her cousin Puisne Judge Nicole Stoneham, who arrived moments after ...

The first Bermudian-born Black woman to serve as a Supreme Court judge has stood down after almost 30 years on the bench. Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons was involved in some of the island’s biggest cases over her distinguished career, including h...

A judge said yesterday that a man who killed his father in a frenzied knife attack acted with the aggression of a “wild dog”. Puisne Judge Shade Subair Williams was speaking as she sentenced Tyshaun Brown to life in prison for manslaughter after he s...

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...

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...

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...