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A grocery store worker has denied he coughed on police officers and that he told them he had “the coronavirus”.
Taahir Augustus, 26, pleaded not guilty in Magistrates’ Court yesterday to two charges of assault on police officers.
Mr Augustus also den...
DATE: Apr 17, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda’s courts have updated their procedures in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.
A practice direction, sent to those who work in both the Supreme Court and Magistrates’ Court by Alexandra Wheatley, the Supreme Court Registrar, details how hearing...
DATE: Apr 15, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man who breached the Covid-19 curfew while wearing an electronic monitoring device has been jailed for a month.
Lawrence Smith, 22, from Paget, pleaded guilty to three breaches of the Shelter in Place regulations.
Smith admitted unlawfully visiting...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man was fined after he was found by police in Warwick in breach of the island-wide lockdown.
Kalio Govia, from Pembroke, pleaded guilty to the offence in an online sitting of Magistrates’ Court last Wednesday.
Govia, 36, of Pembroke, was stopped on...
DATE: Apr 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A developer has been ordered to pay legal costs after he abandoned an effort to fight the validity of a prosecution over a failed hotel project.
Michael MacLean had asked for a judicial review of the Director of Public Prosecution’s 2018 decision to ...
DATE: Apr 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Two men have been charged with breaches of the 24-hour shelter-in-place order that came into force at the weekend.
Christopher Eggen, 31, from Southampton, was alleged to have breached the curfew last Sunday.
He denied the offence, but yesterday seni...
DATE: Apr 07, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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Two men were today charged with breaches of the 24 hour shelter in place order that came into force at the weekend.
Christopher Eggen, 31, from Southampton, was alleged to have breached the 24-hour curfew last Sunday.
He denied the offence, but senio...
DATE: Apr 06, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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Court cases scheduled for the next two weeks will be pushed back in the wake of the 24-hour Shelter in Place order that begins tomorrow morning.
In a circular released this morning Alexandra Wheatley, Supreme Court Registrar, said that all hearings s...
DATE: Apr 03, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A 20-year-old man has appeared in Magistrates’ Court charged with attempted murder in connection with a shooting last week.
Kyari Flood, from Pembroke, was also accused of use of a firearm to commit an indictable offence.
Mr Flood was granted bail ...
DATE: Apr 02, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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All Magistrates’ Court and Supreme Court cases have been put on hold as part of measures to fight the spread of Covid-19, it was announced yesterday.
A letter sent to lawyers from the Supreme Court said: “Both the Magistrates’ Court and the Supreme ...
DATE: Mar 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
News Staff