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A US traffic collision expert told the Supreme Court that he believed a teenager who died in a collision four years ago was struck by an incoming van in her lane.
Glenn Luben, a veteran traffic collision and traffic homicide investigator from Florida...
DATE: Jun 22, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
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...
DATE: Jun 21, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
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...
DATE: Jun 21, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
An officer who investigated the crash that took the life of Je-Naya Simmons said he believed the evidence put the teenager in the wrong lane when the collision occurred.
Sergeant Olasunkanmi Akinmola, a police traffic collision expert, said he “stron...
DATE: Jun 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A homeless man believed he could force his departure from a care home if he did “something nasty” to a nurse, a court was told this week.
Magistrates’ Court heard that a nurse, who cannot be named for legal reasons, left the home because of the trau...
DATE: Jun 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A DJ was remanded in custody yesterday after he was accused of harassing and threatening to stab a woman.
Gregory Outerbridge, 40, pleaded not guilty to the use of “menacing” words against Samantha Wainwright through the telephone, namely: “I’m comin...
DATE: Jun 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A witness told the Supreme Court that she saw a silver van turn off its headlights moments before she came across the body of teenager Jen-Naya Simmons.
Juanae Burchall said that while she was in shock trying to help the young woman, she saw the same...
DATE: Jun 17, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A former police officer was given a suspended prison sentence yesterday for a sexual assault on a former colleague
DATE: Jun 16, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
The friend of a teenager who died in a traffic collision maintained yesterday that she steered to avoid an oncoming van before she noticed that her friend was missing.
Jada Simmons-Trott said that while she would not have struck the van if she had no...
DATE: Jun 16, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A woman described yesterday how a night out turned to tragedy when her friend was killed in a road traffic collision four years ago.
Jada Simmons-Trott told the Supreme Court that she was travelling in front of 19-year-old Jen-Naya Simmons with Ms Si...
DATE: Jun 15, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes