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A Supreme Court judge highlighted yesterday the continued failure by the Government to set up coronavirus-compliant courtrooms for criminal trials. Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons said she was keen to set trial dates for 19 cases. But she told Mark...

A lawyer told the Supreme Court that a colleague had not done his job when he advised a mentally ill man to plead guilty to an alleged street attack on a 70-year-old man on New Year’s Day. Charles Richardson said that Bruce Swan, who appeared for the...

A troubled teenager was spared jail yesterday after a court heard he had experienced “a great deal of trauma and turmoil”. Zywonde Lema said he was “really remorseful” after he pleaded guilty to taking two motorcycles without consent and twice handli...

A teenager was shown mercy in Magistrates’ Court after he pleaded guilty to the theft of a speaker. Shane Darrell, 19, was given a three-month conditional discharge when he admitted that he stole an $180 speaker because he had one stolen from him. Th...

A senior who admitted throwing a corrosive liquid at police in a seven-hour stand-off escaped a jail sentence yesterday. James Dallas, 71, who was released from custody in November last year after nine months in jail, was sentenced in the Supreme Cou...

Two men denied seven drug charges yesterday, which included the possession of cocaine valued at more than $17,000. Steven Easton, 48, and Jason Liburd, 49, pleaded not guilty at Magistrates’ Court to three counts of possession of cocaine with intent ...

A man who racked up more than $3,000 in fines, after he pleaded guilty yesterday to possession of drug equipment and a string of traffic offences, was given until October to pay. But magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo also ordered David Eatherley, 35, to pay...

A man appeared yesterday in Magistrates’ Court charged with stabbing his 60-year-old neighbour. Gary Cooper, 68, is alleged to have stabbed Arthur Hollis with intent to do grievous bodily harm. The incident is alleged to have happened last Sunday in ...

A social inquiry report on a teenager who admitted taking a knife to school was ordered by a court today. Malachi Fox, 18, also pleaded guilty at Magistrates’ Court to possession of $800 worth of stolen goods. The court heard that Fox was seen play f...

A social inquiry report was ordered on a homeless man who stole more than $300 of food from a church. Sean Burchall, 28, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to the theft of the food from Wesley Methodist Church in Hamilton. The court heard that chur...