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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...

A court dispute between the Ministry of National Security and the Bermuda Prison Officers’ Association was dropped yesterday. Both sides agreed in the Court of Appeal to withdraw the case and the Government also agreed to pay the prison officers’ cos...

A 44-year-old mother of two has won an appeal against a three-month jail term imposed for an attempt to smuggle cannabis into Bermuda to treat her chronic epilepsy-like seizures. Natasha York was sentenced to a year in prison in 2018 after she admitt...

The potential sale of a family home has been halted after the Court of Appeal found a bank had not done enough to protect its owners. HSBC Bermuda had sought to sell the Warwick home, which was put up by father and son Keith James and Keimon Lawrence...

A woman charged with firearms related offences will go to the Supreme Court for trial, the Court of Appeal has ruled. The case was dismissed by the Supreme Court last October, but the Court of Appeal overturned the decision in a judgment yesterday. T...

Legal changes are needed to standardise the appointment of future education commissioners, the shadow education minister said yesterday. Cole Simons added that the Court of Appeal ruling in the case of veteran teacher and education official Gina Tuck...

Prosecutors have lodged an appeal to seek a longer prison sentence for a sex offender. Chez Rogers, 20, was jailed on July 15 after he admitted he had unlawful carnal knowledge of a 13-year-old girl and lured her. The offences took place between Augu...

A veteran teacher and education official said yesterday she was disappointed but not embittered, after a court rejected her bid to overturn the appointment of the Commissioner of Education. Gina Tucker had argued that she was not given a fair opportu...

A 2½-year prison sentence imposed on a disgraced police officer who dumped traffic tickets for cash has been upheld by the Court of Appeal. Kyle Wheatley, who had served in the Court Liaison Unit, was jailed last year after he pleaded guilty to defea...

A man jailed for the murder of Perry Puckerin has lost an appeal against his conviction. Jeremiah Dill, 35, was sentenced to 35 years behind bars after a jury found he fatally shot Mr Puckerin as he was about to leave Hamilton Parish Workman’s Club o...

A man found guilty of murder has had the conviction quashed and will now face a retrial, appeal judges ruled yesterday. Kiari Tucker was jailed last July for at least 25 years for the killing of Morlan Steede plus ten years for use of a firearm. Mr T...