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Same-sex couples who married before a landmark Privy Council judgment will have certainty that their nuptials remain valid if legislation tabled in the House of Assembly yesterday is passed. Walter Roban, the Deputy Premier and Minister of Home Affai...

Same-sex couples who tied the knot before the Privy Council’s decision to back the Government’s ban on marriage equality are still languishing in legal limbo more than two months after the landmark ruling. The Government has failed to clarify the pos...

A man jailed for murder almost a decade ago has had his conviction quashed after the island’s final appeal court ruled that a judge gave improper directions about gunshot residue evidence. Devon Hewey was sentenced to life imprisonment in February 20...

The battle to save the Corporation of Hamilton is to go to Bermuda’s highest court of appeal, The Royal Gazette can reveal. The Corporation of Hamilton is to lodge an appeal with the Privy Council in London in a last-ditch attempt to block government...

Columnist John Barritt says two recent court rulings show that judges should beware of second-guessing politicians’ efforts to manage political differences

Campaigners vowed to keep fighting for equality despite disappointment after Privy Council judges allowed the Government’s legal challenge against same-sex marriage

Different sections of the community will be celebrating or mourning this week after the Privy Council upheld the Government’s laws creating civil unions for same-sex couples but banning same-sex marriages. While the decision, by four judges of Bermu...

The Government will take legal advice before deciding whether same-sex marriages that have already happened will be voided

Judges at the island’s highest court of appeal found that legislation banning same-sex marriage in Bermuda was not unconstitutional.

Privy Council judges yesterday dismissed an appeal from two women who wanted a legally recognised marriage in the Cayman Islands. Chantelle Day and Vickie Bodden Bush challenged a Court of Appeal ruling that the overseas territory’s Bill of Rights di...

June 2013: The Human Rights Act 1981 is amended to outlaw discrimination due to sexual orientation. Wayne Furbert, then an Opposition MP, tries unsuccessfully to remove same-sex marriage from the new provision. October 2015: Preserve Marriage...

A Privy Council ruling on legislation intended to halt same sex marriages is set to be delivered on Monday morning – more than a year after the case was heard. The decision on the case, between the Attorney-General of Bermuda and Rod Ferguson and oth...