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Counsel for a government MP and his daughter said there was nothing to tie the words in a letter for a large group exemption to his clients. Jerome Lynch, KC, told a Supreme Court jury that while the letter’s description of the 2020 event as a one-of...

The Supreme Court of Bermuda has granted winding-up orders in respect of island-based Genting Hong Kong Limited and its indirect, non-wholly owned subsidiary Dream Cruises Holding Limited. The orders were made in accordance with Section 161 of the Co...

A Supreme Court jury was told yesterday to find a restaurant worker not guilty of a charge related to a party held in the midst of the pandemic. Puisne Judge Shade Subair Williams ordered the jury to find Angela Caldwell, 45, of Warwick, not guilty t...

A lawyer has been accused of misusing a client’s trust fund and leaving him penniless after he loaned more than $400,000 to another client without securities. Geoffrey Willcocks has argued that Joseph Wakefield, as executor of his father’s estate, lo...

A government MP told police he understood an event partly organised by his daughter when coronavirus restrictions were in place was expected to be like functions held in Miami or Las Vegas, a court heard. Jurors watched footage from October 2020, whe...

A hospital technician was cleared yesterday of all charges connected to a tragic road traffic collision. Norrell Hull Jr, 48, was found not guilty of killing Tamra Broadley through careless driving during an incident alleged to have happened on Septe...

A police officer tasked with reviewing applications for large-group exemptions initially recommended that an event at Blu Bar and Grill in the midst of the pandemic be refused permission, determining that it would “make an ass out of regulations”. Se...

A man who violently sexually assaulted a care worker while she walked to work was yesterday jailed for 11 years. The Supreme Court heard that Ronald Kirkland Simmons, 39, attempted to pull the victim behind a gate and held a knife to her neck before ...

A man found with 32 rounds of ammunition hidden in a Thermos was sentenced to spend 12 years behind bars yesterday. Counsel for Christopher Perinchief argued that he deserved a shorter sentence due to both his guilty plea and a sentencing discount es...

A woman who was hit by a car would have been “nearly impossible” for the driver to see because of the sun, the Supreme Court heard yesterday. Pc Philip Lewis, a road traffic collision reconstructionist, confirmed that he believed Norrell Hull Jr, 48,...

A 38-year-old man has been jailed for three years after stabbing another man during a Christmas Eve bar brawl. Jaha Mallory, from Southampton, was also ordered to serve two years’ probation once he has completed his prison sentence. At a sentencing h...

A man accused of death by careless driving insisted that the sun was too harsh for him to properly see. Norrell Hull Jr, 48, told a Supreme Court jury yesterday that the conditions on Berry Hill Road, Paget, including shadows cast by trees, made it d...