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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 ...

An application for a judicial review into the legitimacy of a Commission of Inquiry into land grabs could not be heard – because the island’s civil court judges were conflicted. Raymond Davis, also known as Khalid Wasi, said the failure to find an i...

Police expect to pass a file to prosecutors early next year into the disappearance of a taxpayer-funded $800,000 loan to an American music promoter and his Bermudian employee. The cash was lent in April 2018 to Anthony Blakey and Danilee Trott, who o...

Georgian oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili held a large equity position in an account outside Credit Suisse, the bank whose offshoot Credit Suisse Life (Bermuda) he is suing for the loss of $400 million over a call for payment for the same high-risk equit...

The legal system of the nation of Georgia was under the spotlight in the Bermuda Supreme Court yesterday as law experts crossed swords in the $400-million lawsuit pitting former Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili against Credit Suisse Life (...

The head of the independent Police Complaints Authority “seriously” considered “bailing” after the Government failed to hire a lawyer to represent the committee when it was sued by protesters. Chairman Jeffrey Elkinson told fellow authority members i...

Secrecy still surrounds the decision-making that led to a payout of almost a quarter of a million dollars from the public purse to 28 people who protested outside Parliament on December 2, 2016, and their lawyers. Five years on from the infamous clas...

Credit Suisse executives had expressed frustration at a top-performing manager’s multiple compliance breaches, it was revealed in Bermuda’s Supreme Court. Sascha Keusch, head of insurance management at Credit Suisse, was testifying remotely on Friday...

An attempt by a government minister to have a civil court summons thrown out has been dismissed. The Minister of Public Works applied to strike out a writ filed by Calvin Simons, who claimed he lost out on a promotion in the Department of Works and E...

A policewoman who posted an online cartoon before last year’s Black Lives Matter march will not face a criminal prosecution, the Chief Justice ruled yesterday. Mr Justice Narinder Hargun said the All Lives Splatter meme posted on Facebook and Instagr...

“Scandalous” material should be removed from a statement sworn by a policeman who is suing the Commissioner of Police and the senior magistrate, a court heard this week. Sergeant Mark Monk and his wife Tricia have asked for a judicial review of a dec...