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A 33-year-old accused of killing another man on New Year’s Day also appeared at the Supreme Court arraignments session yesterday. Mikado Burchall, of Smith’s, is charged with the unlawful killing of Adrian Hassell, 24, with an alternative charge of ...

The Attorney-General was accused yesterday of a denial of legal protection to a five-year-old boy through a failure to fund independent court representation for him. Lawyers filed an application for leave to apply for judicial review by Martha Dismon...

Two convicted killers are expected to appear before the Court of Appeal this month in efforts to have their convictions quashed. Kiari Tucker and Jeremiah Dill are among several defendants included on the draft cause list for the Court’s November ses...

A driver hit a pedestrian after she drove a car with faulty brakes, Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday. Antonella Smith, 53, pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm to Roma Byron by driving without due care and attention. The court heard that ...

Bermuda’s legal world yesterday honoured the late Sir James Astwood, a trailblazing former Chief Justice. Sir James, the first black Bermudian Chief Justice, was said to be an insightful and compassionate judge whose common-sense rulings had stood th...

A man was yesterday charged with a string of 20-year-old sex offences against two girls. The 56-year-old, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, appeared in Magistrates’ Court to face multiple sex charges, including two counts that he had unlawf...

A US boatyard has launched legal action against the charity that runs the Spirit of Bermuda in a bid to get almost $45,000 it claimed it is owed for work on the vessel. Lawyers for Rockport Marine filed a complaint against the Bermuda Sloop Foundatio...

A woman who forged an insurance document to get her car out of a police pound was fined $2,100 in the Supreme Court yesterday. Ja-Mae Smith, 32, admitted she forged an insurance certificate in July and passed the document off as real to the Transport...

A US couple yesterday appeared in Magistrates’ Court today after cannabis was discovered in their cruise ship cabin. Maria Derenzin, from Passaic, and Ibn Muhammad, from Newark, both New Jersey, admitted importation of the drug into the island on the...

A 57-year-old man was banned from the roads for five years yesterday after he admitted drink-driving. Jeffrey Hill, from Warwick, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to impaired driving. Hill was spotted by a member of the public driving erraticall...