Log In

The Privy Council has ruled against the Bermuda Court of Appeal in a Bermuda purpose trust case which challenged the decision of the trustees of a multibillion-dollar Taiwanese plastics fortune to remove the settlors’ family members as beneficiaries....

Costs payable by campaigners who lost a legal battle to retain the right for same-sex couples to marry have still to be confirmed, a government spokesman said. He added that the litigation was “not yet concluded”. A Privy Council ruling in March foun...

London may be willing to cut a deal with Bermuda over controversial moves to legalise cannabis after the UK rejected the Government’s flagship legislation, a leading legal expert has said. With the threat of a constitutional crisis over the issue loo...

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.