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“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...

Measures to protect the island’s courts from Covid-19 will continue as long as the island remains in the first phase of a return to normal life, the Supreme Court Registrar said today. Alexandra Wheatley said that coronavirus policies imposed on May...

The public has been banned from the courts over the coronavirus crisis. Alexandra Wheatley, the Supreme Court Registrar, said yesterday that only people involved in cases, the media and the parents and guardians of children would be allowed in the co...

A court clerk has been cleared of wrongdoing over a document that claimed a convicted sex offender had no convictions recorded against him. Malik Zuill, who was sentenced to five months in prison in July for a sexual assault on an underage girl, used...

Sir James Astwood, Bermuda’s trailblazing chief justice from 1977 to 1993 and the first black Bermudian to hold the office, has died, aged 95. The lawyer, who trained in Canada and London, was a pragmatist who steered Bermuda’s courts to a new standa...

Arrangements for the renovation of Sessions House were still being finalised this week after MPs were asked to clear their desks last month. Dennis Lister, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, said work on Sessions House was expected to be completed...

Unpaid fines hit almost $2.4 million last year after thousands of criminal and traffic warrants remained in force. The total owed has risen by about $300,000 over two years although judicial authorities said agencies worked together to find people wa...

Access to justice will be “crippled” if there is no swift solution to a lack of adequate court space, authorities warned. Concerns raised in The Bermuda Judiciary Annual Report 2018 centred on the loss of appeal court space from Front Street, which ...

The Supreme Court has been appointed a new registrar, the Governor has announced. John Rankin welcomed Alexandra Wheatley to the team after deliberation with the Judicial and Legal Services Committee and Chief Justice. He said: “She is highly qualifi...

Victims of crime who seek criminal injuries compensation may have to wait years for their claims to be processed, The Royal Gazette can reveal. The lawyer for a man shot four years ago said she was told by the Supreme Court last week that the Crimina...

The Government is staying silent on its practical and financial plans to provide vulnerable children involved in court proceedings with legal representation, despite a judge’s recent criticism that not doing so breaches their rights. Puisne Judge Ste...