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Thirteen years is a long time in the sphere of offshore legal developments, but the regime introduced by Bermuda’s Trusts (Regulation of Trust Business) Exemption Order during 2002 may remain the most cost effective and flexible framework for private...

Proud family members flocked to Sessions House yesterday after four lawyers were Called to the Bar. Kiernan Bell, managing partner at Appleby, described the pupils as “four very talented, bright, future attorneys and members of the bar”. During the c...

Bermuda-based law firm Appleby has won a top award. The firm was crowned firm of the year in the offshore category in the UK’s Legal 500 awards. Appleby group managing partner Michael O’Connell said: “We are honoured to be named as Offshore Firm of t...

A witness in a shooting trial was sent threatening messages and promised money to lie under oath, prosecutors told the Supreme Court yesterday. Devon Hewey, Dujon Reid-Anderson and lawyer Kamal Worrell are accused of persuading the man to give false ...

Law firm MJM Ltd has signed up a new lawyer. Louise Charleson, who formerly worked for ASW Law and Cox Hallet Wilkinson, has been made a senior associate in the dispute resolution group at the Burnaby Street, Hamilton, legal firm. MJM director and he...

Adjournment means suspending a meeting after it has been duly commenced either indefinitely or so that it may be resumed at a future time and/or place fixed in that meeting or as decided later on. A meeting may be adjourned automatically for want o...

Recent moves by leading global law firms to set up offices in Bermuda mark something of a watershed for our jurisdiction. Bermuda has been renowned for its strength and depth with regard to quality lawyers, however, it has not always been heralded fo...

Bermudian Cristen Suess became the newest member of the Bermuda Bar yesterday, following in her mother’s footsteps. Ms Suess’s mother Sharon Suess, who was Called to the Bermuda Bar 11 years ago, said she was “surprised and happy” when her daughter a...

Aspiring litigator, Madeleine Fox has been awarded a prestigious scholarship by law firm Conyers Dill & Pearman after being accepted to read law at Oxford University. Ms Fox already holds a BA in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley...

The Chief Justice’s decision is a landmark ruling because it has removed 60 years of darkness from our judicial system, which prevented the public from clearly seeing and understanding what was taking place before the courts of Bermuda. In 1955, the ...

Dear Sir, “The issue of disappointing anyone else must take a distant and inferior second place to the goal of pursuing your dreams and making your life choices as you think fit, and with the minimum prospect of regret.” – Julian Hall Those words ...

A management buyout of an arm of top offshore law firm Appleby is to go ahead, the firm has confirmed. The move means the fiduciary and administration business, which has more than 320 staff, part of which is Bermuda-based, will be spun off in a deal...