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A cost-cutting policy that forced Legal Aid clients to use an “in-house” Government lawyer rather than their own counsel is to be challenged in the Supreme Court, The Royal Gazette can reveal. The news came after Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-Gen...

A woman who had charges of theft and money laundering against her dismissed because of a “lack of evidence of wrongdoing” is to sue the Director of Public Prosecutions for malicious prosecution. Yasmin MacLean said in an affidavit in support of a civ...

A woman who suffered a serious back injury in the staff kitchen of a law firm has won more than $500,000 in damages. Carla Jean Forth, represented in the Supreme Court by lawyer Sara-Ann Tucker, said the 2001 fall caused lingering back and hip pain t...

A developer who faced criminal charges over a failed Hamilton hotel project has made a complaint to the Bar Council about his former lawyers. Michael MacLean, who had all the charges against him dropped in the Supreme Court in January 2019, filed the...

A magistrate has launched a legal action against a friend he claimed was driving his BMW last year when it crashed, which led to both men being charged with refusal of a breath test. Lawyers for Khamisi Tokunbo filed a Writ of Summons at the Supreme ...

The Government said yesterday that it had not yet launched court proceedings to try to get back an $800,000 loan to an American music promoter. The cash was lent to Anthony Blakey, from Atlanta, and Danilee Trott, a Bermudian event planner who worked...

The Supreme Court has sunk a lawsuit over the failed sale of a refurbished boat. Sean DeSilva had offered Adam Gibbons and Ryan Heyrana the “all-inclusive” price of $15,000 to bring in the 1979 20ft Aquasport centre console from Florida, and give it ...

A controversial part of Bermuda’s jury selection procedure was ruled yesterday to be in breach of the Constitution by the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Narinder Hargun said the Criminal Code section that allowed prosecutors to stand down an unlimited ...

A man who had been charged with attempted murder claimed it was unconstitutional for a Crown prosecutor to bypass ten potential jurors — all of whom appeared to be black people. Jahmico Trott, in a civil action launched in the Supreme Court, claimed ...

Additional court services are will come online next week as the courts continue to reopen in phases. Alexandra Wheatley, the Supreme Court Registry, said in a notice the Supreme Court Registry on the third floor of the Dame Lois Browne-Evans building...

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 legal battle over a failed hotel project has returned to court — with the future of a Hamilton car park at stake. Mexico Infrastructure Finance LLC, the company that provided a loan for construction of the hotel, has asked the Supreme Court to uph...