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An ex-chairman of the West End Development Corporation and former One Bermuda Alliance election candidate is to launch an appeal against a sex assault conviction, Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday. Elizabeth Christopher, for Raymond Charlton, said s...

A man convicted of murder is to face a retrial after the Court of Appeal expressed concerns over jury selection. Sir Christopher Clarke, president of the Court of Appeal, ordered the retrial of Khyri Smith-Williams, who had been jailed for the fatal ...

Jurors in a murder trial gave no indication that they were under pressure to deliver a verdict, a Crown lawyer told the Court of Appeal yesterday. Counsel for Katrina Burgess and Cleveland Rogers – half-siblings jailed for the 2006 murder of Marcus G...

Prosecutors yesterday asked the Court of Appeal to uphold the conviction on two half-siblings jailed for the 2006 murder of 32-year-old Marcus Gibbings. Katrina Burgess and Cleveland Rogers claimed their case was not handled fairly and there was not ...

A defence lawyer called for legislative changes to allow juries not to sequestered at a hotel as half-siblings fought to have their murder convictions overturned. Cleveland Rogers and Katrina Burgess, his half-sister, were both convicted last year of...

A half-brother and sister jailed for a 2006 murder yesterday appealed for their convictions to be be quashed after a claim that jurors rushed their decision to avoid being sequestered overnight. Katrina Burgess and Cleveland Rogers were found guilty ...

A surgeon has lost a bid to quash a $172,000 judgment against him over botched breast surgery that left a woman depressed and disfigured. The patient was later able to get corrective surgery, but said the failed operation had contributed to the end o...

A drug trafficker jailed for 18 years has had an appeal for a lighter sentence rejected. Omar Davy, 40, was found guilty of smuggling $765,700 worth of heroin on a flight from Toronto in 2018. Last month he launched an appeal for a lesser senten...

The Court of Appeal has dismissed an allegation of malfeasance by a mother against the Department of Child and Family Services. The appellant, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, sought damages for pain and suffering caused by supervision ord...

Bermuda’s legal community paid tribute to former Chief Justice, the late Sir Austin Ward, who died in his native Barbados last month at the age of 85. In a special online hearing held on Friday, Sir Christopher Clarke, President of the Court of Appea...

A teenager jailed for a daylight robbery had his conviction and sentence quashed yesterday because of his age. OJ Campbell, 17, admitted that he used an imitation firearm to rob the Rubis gas station on St John’s Road on May 28, last year. He was sen...

Three convicted gunmen yesterday claimed their trials were tainted by unconstitutional jury selection in the Supreme Court. Leveck Roberts, Quincy Brangman and Khyri Smith-Williams asked to have their convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal in the...