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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...

The parents of a Bermudian teenager who took her own life at a US treatment centre have launched a lawsuit against the facility over her death. Kirsta Simons, 17, had been sent to West Ridge Academy in Utah by the Family Court under the care of the D...

Two policemen accused of “causing disaffection” among their colleagues have been told they will not be charged with a criminal offence. Officers raided the homes of Sergeant Mark Monk and Pc Robert Butterfield last December, seizing electronic equipm...

A sacked police officer who lost a legal battle to get his job back is to appeal the decision. Victoria Greening, the lawyer for Oswin Pereira, claimed his case was of “huge public interest” as it concerned whether decisions of the Public Service Com...

A campaign to mount a legal challenge to tougher quarantine regulations for unvaccinated arrivals has raised more than $25,000 in just four days. Constitutional Freedom Bermuda, a pressure group, launched the fundraising effort last Friday after it h...

A woman fired for her “autocratic” management style has had her unfair dismissal award slashed by the Supreme Court. In a written judgment dated March 23, Puisne Judge Shade Subair Williams upheld a finding that Marie-Josee Caesar was improperly dism...

A police officer accused of posting a “grossly offensive” meme online has launched legal action against the Crown. Barbi Bishop, a constable, argued the charge breached the freedom of conscience and expression guaranteed by the Constitution. The ac...

The Commissioner of Police has warned two serving officers that he will sue them unless they pay him compensation for causing “serious harm” to his reputation and “significant personal anxiety and distress” by allegedly making public a confidential c...

A magistrate has launched a legal action against the Commissioner of Police for unlawful arrest. A writ was filed by lawyers at Resolution Chambers at the Supreme Court last week on behalf of Khamisi Tokunbo seeking unspecified damages. Mr Tokunbo wa...

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...