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A photograph of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by a former Bermuda policeman has been selected as the base for a stamp intended to honour the late US Supreme Court judge. The US Postal Service announced that Justice Ginsburg, who died in 2020 at the age of 87, ...

An injunction designed to prevent private estate homeowners from trespassing and “committing a nuisance” on their neighbour’s land has been upheld in the Supreme Court. Simon and Deirdre Storey applied to quash the order, related to Samuel Andrew Ban...

A senior who crashed a magistrate’s BMW has been ordered to pay $35,000 in damages. Assistant Justice Jeffrey Elkinson ruled yesterday that Allan Robinson “failed to exercise the expected standard of care” that resulted in a crash involving Khamisi T...

A magistrate is seeking damages of $35,000 from a senior citizen he says crashed his BMW as a result of negligence. Khamisi Tokunbo appeared before Assistant Justice Jeffrey Elkinson yesterday in civil court to request costs and damages from Allan R...

Magistrate Maxanne Anderson said it was an honour and a privilege to serve the people after she was named the new senior magistrate. Rena Lalgie, the Governor, announced the appointment this afternoon after a recommendation from the Judicial and Lega...

A pressure group challenging the legitimacy of a committee set up to handle complaints about judges has called on the Governor to convene a “properly constituted tribunal” to hear its grievance. The Civil Justice Advocacy Group claims Chief Justice N...

The first Bermudian-born Black woman to serve as a Supreme Court judge has stood down after almost 30 years on the bench. Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons was involved in some of the island’s biggest cases over her distinguished career, including h...

Bermuda’s legal community paid tribute to former Chief Justice, the late Sir Austin Ward, who died in his native Barbados last month at the age of 85. In a special online hearing held on Friday, Sir Christopher Clarke, President of the Court of Appea...

A police officer fired after he was accused of striking a teenage suspect with a baton and turning off his body camera has lost a legal battle to be reinstated. The Public Service Commission found last year that Oswin Pereira should not have been dis...

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 magistrate has launched a legal action against a friend he claimed was driving his BMW last year when it crashed, which led to both men being charged with refusal of a breath test. Lawyers for Khamisi Tokunbo filed a Writ of Summons at the Supreme ...

A Supreme Court judge has delivered a withering assessment of driving in Bermuda. Acting Puisne Judge Juan Wolffe described driving standards on the island as “horrendous” as he sentenced a teenager who stole a motorbike and led police on a high-spee...