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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 ...
DATE: Apr 11, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man who faked Covid-19 test results to avoid attendance at the Drug Treatment Court has been jailed for four months
DATE: Apr 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
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 ...
DATE: Apr 09, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
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...
DATE: Apr 08, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
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...
DATE: Apr 07, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
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...
DATE: Apr 06, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
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...
DATE: Apr 05, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
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...
DATE: Apr 05, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
An 81-year-old taxi driver has been banned from driving after she admitted blame for an accident that punctured the lung of a motorcycle rider
DATE: Apr 04, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man who killed his father has apologised to his family for the frenzied knife attack that led to his death.
Tyshaun Brown told the Supreme Court that he was sorry for the trauma he had inflicted.
He said: “I would like to apologise to my family for...
DATE: Apr 02, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan