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A children’s rights campaigner yesterday welcomed a recruitment drive for litigation guardians for children and young people who appear in court. Tiffanne Thomas, a social worker who worked as a litigation guardian in a string of cases from 2014, sai...

Government House has been ordered to release part of a record which raises “questions about the procedures” used by a committee which reviews complaints about judges. Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez gave the Office of the Governor until ...

An application for a judicial review into the legitimacy of a Commission of Inquiry into land grabs could not be heard – because the island’s civil court judges were conflicted. Raymond Davis, also known as Khalid Wasi, said the failure to find an i...

The courts have restricted their operations further because of Covid-19 health concerns, it was revealed tonight. A government spokeswoman said that Magistrates’ Court and the Supreme Court would continue to sit, but with “reduced services and limite...

Family mediators were asked to bid for Government work to help resolve disputes over parental access to children. An invitation to tender was published to cover the “legally mandated function”. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Social Development and...

Delays in criminal trials that caused a backlog of cases were yesterday blamed on lawyers. Chief Justice Narinder Hargun said members of the legal profession had failed to appear in court or submit documents in advance of trials. Mr Justice Hargun ad...

More than 30 people have taken part in a secretive witness protection programme since it began ten years ago, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Cindy Clarke, the Director of Public Prosecutions, said there had been 33 participants and 18 “connected perso...

Bermuda’s top magistrate has hit back at claims that the court system is riddled with inefficiencies and incompetence. Juan Wolffe, the senior magistrate, defended the lower court after top lawyer Jerome Lynch QC claimed lat week that defendants on t...

A courtroom has been refitted to cut the risk of coronavirus transmission so Supreme Court trials can restart. Partitions were installed to shield jurors, staff and lawyers who use the Supreme Court in Sessions House. Trials are expected to resume ne...

Judicial department staff have declared a vote of no confidence in their management, citing “bullying, harassment and victimisation” in a letter from their union representative filed on Thursday with the Ministry of Legal Affairs. According to the le...

A bereaved widow hit out yesterday after she was told a backlog at the coroner’s office was to blame for a months-long wait for a document needed to settle her husband’s estate. The 62-year-old Devonshire woman said the three month delay in issuing h...

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...