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The first Bermudian-born Black woman to serve as a Supreme Court judge has stood down after almost 30 years on the bench. Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons was involved in some of the island’s biggest cases over her distinguished career, including h...

A judge said yesterday that a man who killed his father in a frenzied knife attack acted with the aggression of a “wild dog”. Puisne Judge Shade Subair Williams was speaking as she sentenced Tyshaun Brown to life in prison for manslaughter after he s...

A woman who said she had been sexually assaulted for years as a child insisted yesterday that her memories were clear despite being “very fragmented”. The woman, now 35, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the Supreme Court that she remembere...

A hearing into the legality of a Commission of Inquiry into allegations of land grabs will be held in the summer. The hearing was ordered after Raymond Davis, also known as Khalid Wasi, and Myron Piper, asked for a judicial review of the commission i...

A man who killed his father has apologised to his family for the frenzied knife attack that led to his death. Tyshaun Brown told the Supreme Court that he was sorry for the trauma he had inflicted. He said: “I would like to apologise to my family for...

Police confirmed yesterday that they will look into the case of a senior government lawyer who failed to pay $52,000 in stamp duty for clients after a Supreme Court judgment against him. A police spokesman said that the Commissioner of Police had rec...

A judge has ordered that a dispute between a senior Government lawyer and former clients be referred to the police after the lawyer pledged to repay the clients more than $70,000. The Supreme Court heard that lawyer Myron Simmons, who is a senior Cro...

A woman told a court yesterday that she was sexually assaulted at least four times by a tenant in her family home and that the abuse started when she was just four years old. The woman, now 35, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the Supreme ...

A pressure group looking at a law suit against the Government over allegations of mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic yesterday claimed many were afraid to speak out against the restrictions. Eugene Dean of the Collective Action Solidarity Trust s...

Billionaire and former Prime Minister of the Caucusus nation of Georgia, Bidzina Ivanishvili, won a half billion-dollar lawsuit in Bermuda’s Supreme Court today in a legal battle that pitted him against Swiss banking giant subsidiary Credit Suisse Li...

A law firm yesterday asked a court to waive legal privilege in a dispute over an $18 million loan for a hotel development that was never paid back. The move came after Mexico Infrastructure Finance, who provided the cash to jump-start the Par la Vill...

A judge has dismissed a former police officer’s appeal against a sexual assault conviction, likening his behaviour to a “creeping tomcat quietly hunting its prey”. Jermari Belboda, 27, was found guilty by magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo in 2020 of an ass...