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A review of court cases presided over by the Chief Justice that involved island banks should be carried out, a pressure group has said. The Civil Justice Advocacy Group claimed the move was needed after it was revealed in January that Narinder Hargun...

A magistrate launched legal action yesterday for wrongful arrest against the Attorney-General and a police officer. Khamisi Tokunbo filed a writ against the Commissioner of Police last year, but the Supreme Court heard yesterday that he wanted to ame...

Close to $2 million was racked up in legal fees at home and overseas by the City of Hamilton as part of two court battles. More than $1 million was spent on the City’s fight with the Government over its proposal to change both of the island’s municip...

Unpaid taxes and Government fees were thought to total almost $198 million at the end of last year, the finance minister said. Curtis Dickinson told the House of Assembly that the estimate was based on figures from the Office of the Tax Commissioner ...

Resignation may be the “best option” for a controversial senator and junior minister after a court heard he had failed to pay $19,000 in rent arrears to his elderly former landlady, the Leader of the Opposition said yesterday. Cole Simons said: “Wh...

An elderly woman said her hair was falling out and she had become ill because of stress after she was forced to take legal action against a government junior minister who owed her $19,000 in unpaid rent. Margaret Harvey accused Curtis Richardson, a...

A former sergeant major who raised thousands of dollars for charity with an annual 24-hour walkathon is suing former Opposition deputy leader Leah Scott for defamation. Marilyn Steede alleges in the civil suit filed in the Supreme Court that Ms Scott...

The Ministry of Finance has launched legal action against a former One Bermuda Alliance MP and his landscaping company over allegations of unpaid taxes. The Attorney-General’s Chambers filed a writ against Jeff Sousa, his Sousa’s Landscape Management...

A five-week long, $400 million lawsuit completed submissions on Friday with a lawyer claiming it was fully expected that Credit Suisse’s investment team was responsible for managing his wealthy client’s hundreds of millions of dollars in Credit Suiss...

A lawsuit pitting the former Prime Minister of Georgia against banking giant Credit Suisse’s Bermuda life insurance company and which has lasted five weeks is scheduled to finish today. In its final hours yesterday, proceedings were dominated by a ro...

A case with tentacles that reach into Switzerland, the Caucasus nation of Georgia, as well as the United Kingdom’s territories of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands has lawyers for a Georgian plaintiff saying it is Bermuda’s law t...

Government House has been ordered to release part of a record which raises “questions about the procedures” used by a committee which reviews complaints about judges. Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez gave the Office of the Governor until ...