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A man jailed for three years for a string of sex offences against a schoolgirl has had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal. Kenneth Williams was found guilty of offences against a child under the age of 14 last year. But lawyers asked for t...

A child sex offender jailed for 18 months will not get a heavier sentence, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday. Cindy Clarke, for the Crown, argued that Chez Rogers should serve at least three years after he was convicted on charges of luring and hav...

Two murderers and a third man jailed for attempted murder have won the right to appeal their convictions in what was said to be a potential landmark decision. The ruling by the Court of Appeal yesterday came in the wake of changes to the law on jury ...

The former chief executive of the Bermuda Health Council has settled her court battle against her ex-employer. Counsel for the BHeC told the Court of Appeal yesterday that a settlement had been reached with Tawanna Wedderburn, who had launched a cour...

Defendants are being denied a fair trial in Magistrates’ Court because of inefficiencies that cause hearings to drag on for years, it has been claimed. Top attorney Jerome Lynch QC made the accusation during a Court of Appeal hearing yesterday into t...

A group of defence lawyers yesterday launched a bid to appeal the convictions of three men jailed for murder and attempted murder. The move came in the wake of a ruling earlier this year which deemed that the jury selection process in criminal trials...

A court ruling which awarded a man $125,000 in damages after he imported gay sex DVDs has been upheld by the Court of Appeal. Dwight Lambert won his claim for compensation last year after a 14-year legal battle in which he claimed legislators and th...

A judgment on a prosecution appeal against what was argued was a too lenient sentence will be announced in two weeks. Cindy Clarke, the Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, asked the Court of Appeal for a three-year sentence for Chez Rogers, 20, ...

A lawyer asked the Court of Appeal yesterday to allow a lawsuit against the Department of Child and Family Services to go ahead after it was struck out by an Acting Assistant Justice who had not been sworn in. Simone Smith Bean told the Court of Appe...

A man jailed for a series of sex offences against a young girl will appeal his conviction before the Court of Appeal next month. Kenneth Williams, 47, was sentenced to three years in prison last year after he was convicted in Magistrates' Court of si...

A father accused of “disgraceful” and “selfish” conduct by a judge has won the right to appeal her ruling that he must pay his ex-wife more than a decade’s worth of child support expenses. The businessman asked for the court to rule he did not have t...

A request for proposal to create a new home for the Supreme Court as well as a family court has been issued by the Government. The RFP asked for companies interested in the renovation of the third to sixth floors of the Dame Lois Brown-Evans building...