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Defendants are being denied a fair trial in Magistrates’ Court because of inefficiencies that cause hearings to drag on for years, it has been claimed. Top attorney Jerome Lynch QC made the accusation during a Court of Appeal hearing yesterday into t...

A group of defence lawyers yesterday launched a bid to appeal the convictions of three men jailed for murder and attempted murder. The move came in the wake of a ruling earlier this year which deemed that the jury selection process in criminal trials...

A court ruling which awarded a man $125,000 in damages after he imported gay sex DVDs has been upheld by the Court of Appeal. Dwight Lambert won his claim for compensation last year after a 14-year legal battle in which he claimed legislators and th...

A judgment on a prosecution appeal against what was argued was a too lenient sentence will be announced in two weeks. Cindy Clarke, the Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, asked the Court of Appeal for a three-year sentence for Chez Rogers, 20, ...

A lawyer asked the Court of Appeal yesterday to allow a lawsuit against the Department of Child and Family Services to go ahead after it was struck out by an Acting Assistant Justice who had not been sworn in. Simone Smith Bean told the Court of Appe...

A man jailed for a series of sex offences against a young girl will appeal his conviction before the Court of Appeal next month. Kenneth Williams, 47, was sentenced to three years in prison last year after he was convicted in Magistrates' Court of si...

A father accused of “disgraceful” and “selfish” conduct by a judge has won the right to appeal her ruling that he must pay his ex-wife more than a decade’s worth of child support expenses. The businessman asked for the court to rule he did not have t...

A request for proposal to create a new home for the Supreme Court as well as a family court has been issued by the Government. The RFP asked for companies interested in the renovation of the third to sixth floors of the Dame Lois Brown-Evans building...

A court dispute between the Ministry of National Security and the Bermuda Prison Officers’ Association was dropped yesterday. Both sides agreed in the Court of Appeal to withdraw the case and the Government also agreed to pay the prison officers’ cos...

A 44-year-old mother of two has won an appeal against a three-month jail term imposed for an attempt to smuggle cannabis into Bermuda to treat her chronic epilepsy-like seizures. Natasha York was sentenced to a year in prison in 2018 after she admitt...

The potential sale of a family home has been halted after the Court of Appeal found a bank had not done enough to protect its owners. HSBC Bermuda had sought to sell the Warwick home, which was put up by father and son Keith James and Keimon Lawrence...

A woman charged with firearms related offences will go to the Supreme Court for trial, the Court of Appeal has ruled. The case was dismissed by the Supreme Court last October, but the Court of Appeal overturned the decision in a judgment yesterday. T...