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Everyone involved in Supreme Court hearings is now expected to attend in person, it was announced today. A direction issued this morning said: “While the courts have utilised Zoom to conduct remote hearings to address the difficulties with attending ...

The One Bermuda Alliance has demanded the Government provide an immediate explanation to reports of “significant resignations” within the Department of Public Prosecutions. Scott Pearman, the Shadow Legal Affairs Minister, said the news could exacer...

A case management system that is the “lifeblood” of the island’s courts must be replaced as a priority, the Registrar of the Courts said. Alexandra Domingues noted in an annual report that the judiciary was told the funding needed to buy an up-to-dat...

Juvenile court cases soared in 2021, MPs heard on Friday in the House of Assembly. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, told the House that new cases sent to the family courts dropped nearly one third in 2021 over the previous year. But she adde...

The public nature of wills has recently been hotly contested in the United Kingdom, where the practice of making wills of ordinary folk public, versus sealing royal wills, has been in focus. Following the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh las...

A children’s rights campaigner yesterday welcomed a recruitment drive for litigation guardians for children and young people who appear in court. Tiffanne Thomas, a social worker who worked as a litigation guardian in a string of cases from 2014, sai...

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...

The courts have restricted their operations further because of Covid-19 health concerns, it was revealed tonight. A government spokeswoman said that Magistrates’ Court and the Supreme Court would continue to sit, but with “reduced services and limite...

Family mediators were asked to bid for Government work to help resolve disputes over parental access to children. An invitation to tender was published to cover the “legally mandated function”. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Social Development and...

Delays in criminal trials that caused a backlog of cases were yesterday blamed on lawyers. Chief Justice Narinder Hargun said members of the legal profession had failed to appear in court or submit documents in advance of trials. Mr Justice Hargun ad...