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The Bermuda Bar Council has been slammed for its handling of a complaint against a lawyer accused of improper questioning of a witness. A Disciplinary Tribunal decision written by Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons, which dismissed the case, said the ...

A lawyer who was accused of improper conduct has had the allegations dismissed by a Disciplinary Tribunal. Norman MacDonald came under fire for “irrelevantly and improperly” questioning the sexual orientation of a witness in a Supreme Court case over...

Same-sex marriage would not prevent people who believed that only people of opposite genders should be allowed to wed from the practice of their faith, a top lawyer said today. Lord Pannick QC, for supporters of same-sex marriage before the Privy Co...

The legal battle over same-sex marriage in Bermuda began in London this morning as a senior UK lawyer argued the legislated ban on such unions was not discriminatory. Jonathan Crow, QC, representing the Attorney-General of Bermuda, argued that legisl...

A pressure group which fought to end marriage equality in Bermuda is still “absolutely” against same-sex weddings but no longer raises funds, its chairman said. Melvyn Bassett of Preserve Marriage and Family said the organisation – no longer a regist...

Two of Britain’s top barristers will battle it out in front of the Privy Council in London from tomorrow over whether same-sex marriage should be banned in Bermuda. The Government has hired Jonathan Crow QC – said by the Legal 500 ranking agency to b...

The Bermudian who launched the legal fight for marriage equality four years ago said he was optimistic about how it would end – and about the future for gay people on the island. Winston Godwin said: “There are always going to be pockets of people wh...

The legal battle over marriage equality will be decided after a two-day virtual hearing which is due to start tomorrow in front of the Privy Council in London. A panel of five judges at Bermuda’s highest court of appeal will hear the Government’s arg...

An American author whose teenage years in Bermuda were marred by homophobia yesterday appealed to opponents of same-sex marriage to give in to progress. Kirkland Hamill, who married his same-sex partner two years ago in the United States, said: “Gay ...

Two Bermudians have put up funds to pay for an expensive legal battle to stop the outlawing of same-sex marriage on the island. The private citizens, neither gay, spoke to The Royal Gazette on condition of anonymity as the Privy Council in London pre...

A gay rights charity that fought for same-sex marriage in Bermuda’s courts has welcomed its last legal challenge this week. OutBermuda hailed its “final appeal in London for Bermuda’s historic marriage equality decision”. Legal arguments will be ...

After a May 2017 hearing that found prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying was discriminatory and unconstitutional, the Chief Justice of Bermuda’s Supreme Court ruled that same sex-marriages in Bermuda should be legal. In November 2018, the Gover...