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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...

A man jailed for killing a star footballer has argued in the island’s highest court of appeal in London that he was convicted on evidence that should not have been allowed. Devon Hewey was sentenced to life behind bars in 2013 with co-accused Jay Dil...

A year to the day after Bermuda’s top court heard arguments about same sex marriage, supporters and opponents are still awaiting its decision

A man convicted of a 2011 murder will have his case heard by the Privy Council in London next month. Devon Hewey and Jay Dill were sentenced to life in prison in 2013 after they were found guilty by a unanimous verdict of the killing of footballer Ra...

Same-sex marriage would not prevent people who believed that only people of opposite genders should be allowed to wed from the practice of their faith, a top lawyer said today. Lord Pannick QC, for supporters of same-sex marriage before the Privy Co...

The legal battle over same-sex marriage in Bermuda began in London this morning as a senior UK lawyer argued the legislated ban on such unions was not discriminatory. Jonathan Crow, QC, representing the Attorney-General of Bermuda, argued that legisl...

A pressure group which fought to end marriage equality in Bermuda is still “absolutely” against same-sex weddings but no longer raises funds, its chairman said. Melvyn Bassett of Preserve Marriage and Family said the organisation – no longer a regist...

Two of Britain’s top barristers will battle it out in front of the Privy Council in London from tomorrow over whether same-sex marriage should be banned in Bermuda. The Government has hired Jonathan Crow QC – said by the Legal 500 ranking agency to b...

The Bermudian who launched the legal fight for marriage equality four years ago said he was optimistic about how it would end – and about the future for gay people on the island. Winston Godwin said: “There are always going to be pockets of people wh...

The legal battle over marriage equality will be decided after a two-day virtual hearing which is due to start tomorrow in front of the Privy Council in London. A panel of five judges at Bermuda’s highest court of appeal will hear the Government’s arg...

An American author whose teenage years in Bermuda were marred by homophobia yesterday appealed to opponents of same-sex marriage to give in to progress. Kirkland Hamill, who married his same-sex partner two years ago in the United States, said: “Gay ...