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A doctor has welcomed an interim ruling that allowed his clinic to continue to provide services under the Standard Health Benefit. JJ Soares said the Court of Appeal decision meant that an application for SHB status for Hamilton Medical Centre, where...

Two British legal consultants, including a Queen’s Counsel, are on the island until next March to strengthen the island’s system of independent court advocates for children. Tinée Furbert, the social development minister, revealed that “experienced f...

A legal trainee who helped draft legislation for emergency Covid-19 payments under a Ministry of Legal Affairs pupillage was welcomed into the fold as a new lawyer at a ceremony on Friday. Lorendae Symonds told Puisne Judge Larry Mussenden she was “h...

A new lawyer credited an alumna’s speech nine years ago at the Bermuda High School for Girls for sparking her interest. Kathleen McBeath also told Puisne Judge Larry Mussenden at a ceremony on Friday that she followed the advice of her grandfather Cr...

Two men appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday morning charged with three counts of murder. Siohn Akinstall, 19, was accused of the killing of Ayinde Eve, 27, and Micah Davis, 22, at the Robin Hood Pub and Restaurant on October 26. He was also accu...

The Bermuda Health Council has called on the Court of Appeal to overturn a decision to allow a clinic to offer services under the Standard Health Benefit. Ben Adamson, counsel for the BHeC, said the body reasonably refused the Hamilton Medical Centre...

No evidence that political speech would be stifled by legislation designed to replace elected officials in the municipalities with appointed quango members has been presented, the court of Appeal has been told. Delroy Duncan, the counsel for the Atto...

The City of Hamilton continued its battle for survival yesterday in the face of a government plan to turn both of the island’s municipalities into quangos and end local elections. The Supreme Court earlier ruled that the Municipalities Reform Act was...

A woman has denied throwing a party that broke Covid-19 regulations. Shermaine Murphy, 46, pleaded not guilty in Magistrates’ Court on Monday to organising an event called “Pandemic Saturdays – Wet and Wild Edition” that had more than 50 people in at...

A friendly society told a court yesterday that a police investigation should be launched into the reasons it was denied permission to provide motor insurance. Craig Walls, a member of the Bentley Friendly Society, told the Supreme Court: “It is scand...