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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...

More than 30 people have taken part in a secretive witness protection programme since it began ten years ago, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Cindy Clarke, the Director of Public Prosecutions, said there had been 33 participants and 18 “connected perso...

Bermuda’s top magistrate has hit back at claims that the court system is riddled with inefficiencies and incompetence. Juan Wolffe, the senior magistrate, defended the lower court after top lawyer Jerome Lynch QC claimed lat week that defendants on t...

A courtroom has been refitted to cut the risk of coronavirus transmission so Supreme Court trials can restart. Partitions were installed to shield jurors, staff and lawyers who use the Supreme Court in Sessions House. Trials are expected to resume ne...

Judicial department staff have declared a vote of no confidence in their management, citing “bullying, harassment and victimisation” in a letter from their union representative filed on Thursday with the Ministry of Legal Affairs. According to the le...

A bereaved widow hit out yesterday after she was told a backlog at the coroner’s office was to blame for a months-long wait for a document needed to settle her husband’s estate. The 62-year-old Devonshire woman said the three month delay in issuing h...

A Supreme Court judge highlighted yesterday the continued failure by the Government to set up coronavirus-compliant courtrooms for criminal trials. Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons said she was keen to set trial dates for 19 cases. But she told Mark...

Delays to Supreme Court trials will cause extra stress for defendants, victims and the police, a lawyer predicted yesterday. Victoria Greening, of Resolution Chambers, said that the inability to hold jury trials — potentially until next year — could ...

An antiracism group said yesterday that proposed changes to Bermuda’s jury selection process should be “only the beginning”. Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda welcomed amendments tabled in Parliament last week after Chief Justice Narinder Hargun s...

“Limited” services are returning to the courts tomorrow, with restrictions to be “revisited further in two weeks”. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Legal Affairs said anyone permitted to enter the Dame Lois Browne Evans police and court building on ...

As Bermuda residents slowly start to emerge from their homes, it is obvious to all that the humanitarian and economic challenges that will flow from the scourge of Covid-19 will be unprecedented in our lifetimes. Given the fiscal realities that Berm...