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A local barrister has lost an appeal against a Bermuda Bar Council ruling, which resulted in him being banned from practising. The barrister, who was not identified in the Court of Appeal judgment, was taken before a disciplinary tribunal in 2013 aft...

A sex offender sentenced to ten years behind bars has lost an appeal against his conviction. Shuja Amon Muhammad was convicted last year of four counts of sexually exploiting a seven-year-old girl while in a position of trust on unknown dates between...

A man convicted of severely injuring a lifelong friend by drinking and driving has had his prison sentence extended, despite having been released from custody. John Wardman had been sentenced to six months in prison for causing grievous bodily harm t...

The trial of a man accused of sex offences can go ahead after the Court of Appeal discharged a Supreme Court-ordered stay. The defendant, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, has been charged with sexually touching a girl under the age of 10 a...

A teenager who admitted having sex with an underage girl has had his prison sentence reduced after an appeal. Malik Zuill, 18, pleaded guilty to two counts of having unlawful carnal knowledge of a 14-year-old girl. At the time of the incidents, he w...

The sentence and conviction of former youth leader Milton Richardson has been upheld by the Court of Appeal, with the conviction described as unimpeachable. Richardson, 48, was found guilty of touching a boy under the age of 13 for a sexual purpose a...

A serial burglar who admitted assaulting a woman in her home has lost an appeal against his ten-year prison sentence. Wayne Eugene Smith, a 47-year-old heroin addict with a nearly two decade history of offences, had argued that Puisne Judge Carlisle ...

A man jailed for five years for serious sexual assault has won an appeal against both his conviction and his sentence. While Kristopher Gibbons, 22, was convicted of serious sexual assault, the Court of Appeal ruled that he should have instead been c...

Convicted killer Darronte Dill could become eligible for parole this year as a result of a Court of Appeal ruling. Dill was sentenced to life in prison for the brutal 2008 double murder of Maxwell Brangman and Frederick Gilbert. While the Supreme Co...

An appeal against conviction by sex offender Milton Richardson has been rejected, and the Crown continues to challenge the reduction of his original sentence from 18 months to one year. While it appeared to be in doubt whether Richardson, a former yo...

Two men jailed for a foiled plot to import more than $700,000 of heroin have lost an appeal against their convictions. Lorenzo Lottimore, 34, and Craig Hatherley, 29, were found guilty in 2012 of conspiring with others to import almost 400 grams of d...

Justice Desiree Bernard and Geoffrey Bell QC have been appointed as new Justices to the Court of Appeal. Making the announcement this afternoon, Governor George Fergusson said: “I am delighted to see two such distinguished lawyers join the Court of A...