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The first hearing of an action brought by dissident shareholders in relation to the merger of Apollo Global Management with Athene Holdings Ltd has concluded with the terms of an order relating to the scope of the obligation by the defendants to prod...

The Step Bermuda Conference returns next week with a record number of speakers and as a three-day affair for the first time. The event, presented by the Bermuda branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, will feature more than 30 speake...

The Police and Fire Retirement System for the City of Detroit late last week filed a class-action lawsuit against Argo Group International Holdings Inc, the Bermuda international underwriter of property and casualty insurance with offices on Pitts Ba...

The Employment Act 2000 is the island’s key piece of employment legislation, applicable to employees who work mainly in Bermuda under an employment contract. The Act aims to promote fair treatment of employers and employees by providing minimum stand...

The man who brought Arbitrade to Bermuda is fighting two new legal challenges, both filed against him and his company and associates last week in two separate jurisdictions. The Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges in the United States Di...

The law requires that an agreement for sale and purchase of Bermuda land is in writing. Typically a seller and buyer agree a transaction “in principle”. The seller will market at a particular price and the buyer will make an offer, whether or not at ...

The One Bermuda Alliance has demanded the Government provide an immediate explanation to reports of “significant resignations” within the Department of Public Prosecutions. Scott Pearman, the Shadow Legal Affairs Minister, said the news could exacer...

Wikipedia was under siege recently from a right-wing campaign focused on its article about recessions. Isn’t it convenient, these critics said, that the online encyclopaedia does not clearly define a recession as two quarters of negative growth? ...

Credit Suisse Life (Bermuda), a division of the banking giant Credit Suisse, has had an application before the Supreme Court rejected by Chief Justice Narinder Hargun. CS Life wanted a $607.35 million judgment against them to be paid from accounts se...

Amendments to the Investment Business Act 2003 become effective today. Julie McLean, a director of international law firm Conyers said the Bermuda Monetary Authority has confirmed the effective date of the Investment Business (Amendment) Act 2022, wh...

Legislation intended to strengthen child protection laws came has come into force, the Attorney-General said today. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General and the Minister of Legal Affairs, said that Part 5 of the Child Safeguarding (Miscellaneous ...

A US Court ruling that supported a division of Everest Re Group Ltd. has been affirmed by a federal appeals court, Business Insurance has reported. The lower court ruling said the Everest Re unit does not have to defend or indemnify a financial advis...