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A campaign to mount a legal challenge to tougher quarantine regulations for unvaccinated arrivals has raised more than $25,000 in just four days. Constitutional Freedom Bermuda, a pressure group, launched the fundraising effort last Friday after it h...

A woman fired for her “autocratic” management style has had her unfair dismissal award slashed by the Supreme Court. In a written judgment dated March 23, Puisne Judge Shade Subair Williams upheld a finding that Marie-Josee Caesar was improperly dism...

A police officer accused of posting a “grossly offensive” meme online has launched legal action against the Crown. Barbi Bishop, a constable, argued the charge breached the freedom of conscience and expression guaranteed by the Constitution. The ac...

The Commissioner of Police has warned two serving officers that he will sue them unless they pay him compensation for causing “serious harm” to his reputation and “significant personal anxiety and distress” by allegedly making public a confidential c...

A magistrate has launched a legal action against the Commissioner of Police for unlawful arrest. A writ was filed by lawyers at Resolution Chambers at the Supreme Court last week on behalf of Khamisi Tokunbo seeking unspecified damages. Mr Tokunbo wa...

A cost-cutting policy that forced Legal Aid clients to use an “in-house” Government lawyer rather than their own counsel is to be challenged in the Supreme Court, The Royal Gazette can reveal. The news came after Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-Gen...

A woman who had charges of theft and money laundering against her dismissed because of a “lack of evidence of wrongdoing” is to sue the Director of Public Prosecutions for malicious prosecution. Yasmin MacLean said in an affidavit in support of a civ...

A woman who suffered a serious back injury in the staff kitchen of a law firm has won more than $500,000 in damages. Carla Jean Forth, represented in the Supreme Court by lawyer Sara-Ann Tucker, said the 2001 fall caused lingering back and hip pain t...

A developer who faced criminal charges over a failed Hamilton hotel project has made a complaint to the Bar Council about his former lawyers. Michael MacLean, who had all the charges against him dropped in the Supreme Court in January 2019, filed the...

A magistrate has launched a legal action against a friend he claimed was driving his BMW last year when it crashed, which led to both men being charged with refusal of a breath test. Lawyers for Khamisi Tokunbo filed a Writ of Summons at the Supreme ...

The Government said yesterday that it had not yet launched court proceedings to try to get back an $800,000 loan to an American music promoter. The cash was lent to Anthony Blakey, from Atlanta, and Danilee Trott, a Bermudian event planner who worked...

The Supreme Court has sunk a lawsuit over the failed sale of a refurbished boat. Sean DeSilva had offered Adam Gibbons and Ryan Heyrana the “all-inclusive” price of $15,000 to bring in the 1979 20ft Aquasport centre console from Florida, and give it ...