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The objectives of Bermuda’s rent control regime are to provide tenants with security of tenure so that a court order is required to evict a tenant and also to prevent landlords from arbitrarily and unfairly increasing a tenant’s rent payments. In thi...

Colloquially, the term ‘common law marriage’ is used to describe the relationship of a man and a woman who live together as husband and wife without having gone through a legal ceremony of marriage. The non-recognition, in Bermuda, of common law marr...

As a British Overseas Territory, the similarities between Bermuda and Great Britain include embracing cricket as a national sport, driving on the left hand side of the road, displaying an image of the Queen on currency and referring to the surroundin...

The safety of staff at the Legal Aid office is being put at risk, along with client confidentiality, due to cramped and insecure working conditions, according to the Department’s chairman. In an annual report covering a three-year period, former Seni...

By Caljonah Smith (Appleby) The importance of making a Will is made clear in the case of “Maurice”, whose failure to do so frustrated his own wishes — and left his widow with an unwanted, and unnecessary, stamp duty expense. When Maurice died, he lef...

Seniors can take advantage of free 20-minute consultations with lawyers at an Age Concern event tomorrow. The charity will once again link up with law firm MJM for its annual legal clinic, at its Point Finger base. Consultations with lawyers on a ran...

Bermudians who have entered into same-sex marriages, or civil unions/partnerships, in jurisdictions where those legal arrangements are permitted should be aware that such arrangements will likely not be recognised in Bermuda — and that will have an i...

A recent change in Bermuda’s company law aimed at enhancing the Island’s attractiveness as an international financial centre has also brought into sharp focus the standards of governance advisable in the investment funds industry. The Companies Amend...

Bermuda’s Appleby, with 805 staff in 11 offices around the world, is the largest offshore law firm, according to the results of The Lawyer’s annual survey. But neither Appleby, nor any of the other law firms in the Offshore Top 30 survey of the “secr...