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The Supreme Court is to get a permanent home in the building used to house the lower court, the Government has confirmed. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, told the House of Assembly last Wednesday that the cost of the mov...

Changes to speed up compensation payments to people who suffer criminal injuries and to boost cruise ship revenue have been approved in the House of Assembly. The amendments to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act and the Miscellaneous Taxes Act we...

A pair of half-siblings accused of the 2006 murder of a man were found guilty by a unanimous jury verdict yesterday. Katrina Burgess, 49, and Cleveland Rogers, 52 had denied the premeditated murder of Marcus Gibbings, who was found dead in a Devonshi...

Defendants waited nearly twice as long to have their cases heard in the Supreme Court last year compared with 2018. Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons said in the annual report of the judiciary, a lack of court space and trial judges had caused the wa...

The case of two people charged with a man’s murder will go to a jury today. Lawyers for Cleveland Rogers and Katrina Burgess told the Supreme Court on Friday that the evidence put forward by prosecutors could not support their “Lifetime movie” narrat...

Narinder Hargun, the Chief Justice, has granted a plaintiffs’ application for specific discovery, ordering that a Bermuda-based life insurer provide documents as part of a civil case involving hundreds of millions of dollars. Mr Hargun ruled that a c...

Top lawyers called for a beefed-up Family Court service yesterday and an on-island residential treatment centre for troubled children. Juan Wolffe, the senior magistrate, said people called to Family Court should have better access to legal aid and p...

A veteran Bermuda teacher and education administrator has lost her Supreme Court bid to have the appointment of the Commissioner of Education quashed. Gina Tucker claimed that she had “not been fairly treated or properly considered” for the job, whi...

A man murdered in 2006 was stabbed in the heart, the Supreme Court heard yesterday. John Obafunwa, a forensic pathologist, told the court that Marcus Gibbings died of blood loss after he suffered multiple stab wounds. Dr Obafunwa highlighted three ma...

A construction firm head is to sue another group in the sector over an alleged attempt to sell an insolvent business. Jason Smith, of Smith Hauling & Excavation, filed a writ in the Supreme Court against Dennis Correia, Correia Construction and Corco...

A female police officer was charged yesterday with unauthorised access to police information and drug-related offences, police said. Commissioner of Police Stephen Corbishley said Lakila Hart was arrested in June last year on suspicion of defeating t...

A man who threatened to kill the Premier is still behind bars — because he must face another trial for threatening his father. Jared Gordon, 30, was sentenced to a year in prison, which he has already served, for the threats to David Burt, but the Su...