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The Privy Council has overturned the Bermuda Court of Appeal in a fraud case involving the MRM Group and self-made American building supplies billionaire Diane Hendricks. The Bermuda Appeal Court had sided with Mrs Hendricks, her late husband Kenneth...

Former Bermuda Housing Corporation manager and Regiment Major Glenn Brangman has appealed his sentence for sexually assaulting a male clerk. Shade Subair told Supreme Court that her client’s three-and-a-half year sentence was manifestly excessive. Th...

Bermudians Against the Draft yesterday urged Attorney General Kim Wilson to throw her weight behind their call for a board of inquiry into the Court of Appeal. BAD spokesman Larry Marshall charged in a letter to Ms Wilson that the Court of Appeal’s ...

Proceedings in the Court of Appeal will now be recorded and made available to attorneys and litigants, Supreme Court president Edward Zacca announced yesterday. The issue came to the fore most recently in September when one litigant wanted to obtain ...

The president of the Court of Appeal has spoken out about why he has ordered proceedings in his courtroom not to be recorded, despite it being standard practice in the UK. Edward Zacca, in a joint statement with Charlene Scott, the registrar of the c...

The recent stories about the lack of transcripts available for Court of Appeal cases raise a number of issues about justice in Bermuda and how it is carried out. The problem is not isolated to the Court of Appeal. Some cases in the Supreme Court and ...

Bermuda’s Court of Appeal is being urged to follow the UK’s lead by recording its hearings and making transcripts available to the public. A senior press officer for the Judicial Office in London told The Royal Gazette the Court of Appeal there follo...

The Court of Appeal has upheld the conviction of murderer Kevin Warner. The three judge panel heard submissions last week from defence lawyer Elizabeth Christopher, who said the conviction was “completely unsafe”. Warner, 22, was convicted last year ...

The Court of Appeal has been accused of failing to move into the 21st century for not electronically recording all of its proceedings. Several appellants claim they discovered after their hearings were held that no recording was made and no official ...

Two men fighting to keep their licences after a mandatory 12-month disqualification for driving while impaired have had their appeals dismissed. Chief Justice Richard Ground dashed any hopes 42-year-old Dean Grant or 56-year-old Derek Lambe had of a...