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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...

The Supreme Court has rejected a bid to seize $400,000 from the wife of a man convicted of money laundering in Ecuador. The court heard that the money was transferred into a SunLife account owned by Esmeralda Patino in 2015. While Ms Patino said the ...

A man who trespassed onto Government House to speak to the Governor was sent yesterday to Mental Health Treatment Court. Magistrates Court heard that Danyon Looby, 46, went to the grounds of Government House on February 21 and tried to speak to Rena ...