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January 20, 2011
Chief Justice urges more lawyers to settle cases out of court
By DENISE MAYCOCK
Tribune Freeport Reporter
dmaycock@tribunemedia.net
FREEPORT - Chief Justice Sir Michael Barnett is urging lawyers to cooperate with each other with a view to settling more matters out of court.
Sir Michael made this statement while addressing the Grand Bahama legal fraternity on Wednesday to mark the opening of the new legal year.
He said lawyers must consider the interests...
January 21, 2011
Lawyer: AG's Office should not be named in Grant-Bethell case
The Office of the Attorney General (OAG)?should not be named as a respondent in the judicial review hearing that is examining the application process for the post of director of public prosecutions, according to attorney Brian Simms, QC.
Simms represents the OAG in the action filed by Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl Grant-Bethell, who is challenging a decision to pass her over for th...
February 09, 2011
Lawyer suggests break-ins at govt buildings were inside jobs
A defense lawyer on Tuesday suggested that successful break-ins at two government buildings were inside jobs.
Thieves broke into the Department of Immigration and the Road Traffic Department last year. Although those buildings have monitored alarm systems, the break-ins were not discovered until staff arrived at the offices, the court heard.
Wayne Toussaint, Sergio Williams and Julian Evans are o...
January 19, 2011
Halsbury Chambers Lawyers Return from Top Legal Conference
HALSBURY CHAMBERS AT HOUSTON CONFERENCE -- With fewer than 100 of the world's top law firms represented among the selective membership of the International Lawyers Network (ILN), the prestigious body welcomed two attorneys from Nassau-based Halsbury Chambers law offices to its annual regional conference in Houston, Texas. Halsbury Chambers is the only Bahamian firm invited into membership of the I...
January 12, 2023
FTX has recovered $5 billion in liquid assets, lawyer says
FTX, the former cryptocurrency exchange, recovered more than $5 billion in liquid assets, including cash, a lawyer for the company told a bankruptcy judge in Delaware yesterday. Andy Dietderich also said the agreement between FTX US and the joint provisional liquidators (JPL) in The Bahamas is an important step for the bankruptcy case. FTX is ...
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August 17, 2010
Bishop Fraser's lawyer urges magistrate to discharge case
Bishop Earl Randy Fraser will learn next month whether he'll be required to lead a defense to charges that he engaged in a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old member of his church, who had come to him for counseling.
Prosecutors allege that Fraser, the pastor of Pilgrim Baptist Church on St? James Road, had sex with the girl in his church office and at his marital home in Eastwood Estates o...
Bishop wants fewer lawyers in Parliament
August 21, 2010
Bishop wants fewer lawyers in Parliament
By STAFF WRITER
Guardian News Desk
A leading Baptist bishop is calling on voters to reduce the number of attorneys elected to Parliament.
"It is time for the country's electorate to help in reducing the number of lawyers we have in our Parliament, and allow more persons from the ordinary walks of our society to participate in our national debate,"said New Covenant Senior Pastor, Bishop Simeon Hal...
August 22, 2010
Bishop Simeon Hall speaks out against electing lawyers to Parliament
By TANEKA THOMPSON
Tribune Staff Reporter
tthompson@
tribunemedia.net
BAHAMIAN voters should throw their support behind "ordinary" members of society instead of continuously electing lawyers to the halls of Parliament, said Bishop Simeon Hall.
The senior pastor of New Covenant Baptist Church reasoned that lawyers - many of whom profit from the "present culture of criminality" - cannot be expec...
August 25, 2010
Lawyers 'are not wholly to blame' for court case delays
By NATARIO McKENZIE
Tribune Staff Reporter
nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net
A SENIOR lawyer said yesterday that lawyers are not wholly to blame for frequent delays of magistrate court cases.
Speaking outside the magistrate's court complex on Bank Lane yesterday, lawyer Damian Gomez noted that while lawyers are sometimes blamed for delays in court cases, many often spend a considerable amount of tim...
September 14, 2010
Advocacy training course for lawyers, prosecutors lauded
By STAFF REPORTER
Guardian News Desk
A Supreme Court judge, the police commissioner and the president of the Bahamas Bar Association have all touted the benefits of advocacy training currently being offered to Bahamian lawyers and prosecutors-saying that it will likely improve the efficiency of the justice system.
During the opening ceremony yesterday for the Bahamas Middle Temple Society Advocacy...
Lawyer: Smith case prosecutor encouraged perjury
September 16, 2010
Lawyer: Smith case prosecutor encouraged perjury
By LINDA DEUTSCH
AP Special Correspondent
HOWARD K. Stern's lawyer angrily accused a prosecutor of encouraging perjury by a key witness at the Anna Nicole Smith drug conspiracy trial, according to the Associated Press.
Defence attorney Steve Sadow was red-faced Tuesday as he asked the judge to strike the entire testimony of Nadine Alexie, a former nanny for Smith.
"I'm considering it," Superio...
October 15, 2010
Deadline set for Grant-Bethell lawyers to file motion
By ARTESIAâ DAVIS
Guardian Senior Reporter
artesia@nasguard.com
A judge yesterday set a deadline for lawyers for former deputy director of public prosecutions Cheryl Grant-Bethell to file a motion that fully conforms with the rules of the Supreme Court.
Grant-Bethell has applied for judicial review of the decision not to appoint her to the office of director of public prosecutions. Grant-B...
October 15, 2010
Deadline set for Grant-Bethell lawyers to file motion
By ARTESIA DAVIS
Guardian Senior Reporter
artesia@nasguard.com
A judge yesterday set a deadline for lawyers for former deputy director of public prosecutions Cheryl Grant-Bethell to file a motion that fully conforms with the rules of the Supreme Court.
Grant-Bethell has applied for judicial review of the decision not to appoint her to the office of director of public prosecutions. Grant-Bethell ap...
October 19, 2010
Lawyers rapped by judge appear to have escaped punishment
Lawyers severely discredited in a Supreme Court judgment appear to have escaped contempt action and disciplinary measures despite being criticised by a senior judge for serious misconduct and wasting court time.
Magistrate Derrence Rolle was appointed to the bench three years after he was criticised by Senior Justice John Lyons in his judgment on the Arawak Homes case. The appointment was made ...
Judge orders arrest of AG's Office lawyer
October 20, 2010
Judge orders arrest of AG's Office lawyer
THE DEPUTY Director of Public Prosecutions had to rush to the Appeals Court yesterday to bail out one of his legal staff who was ordered arrested after she sat down saying she could be of no further assistance to the court in the case before it.
According to sources present during the proceedings, lawyer Joyann Ferguson-Pratt, representing the Attorney General's office, was ordered to be taken in...
Judge orders arrest of AG's Office lawyer
October 22, 2010
Judge orders arrest of AG's Office lawyer
THE DEPUTY Director of Public Prosecutions had to rush to the Appeals Court yesterday to bail out one of his legal staff who was ordered arrested after she sat down saying she could be of no further assistance to the court in the case before it.
According to sources present during the proceedings, lawyer Joyann Ferguson-Pratt, representing the Attorney General's office, was ordered to be taken ...
Disbarred lawyer's plea ends in arrest
October 24, 2010
Disbarred lawyer's plea ends in arrest
A disbarred attorney's application to be reinstated by the Bahamas Bar Association ended in his arrest outside the Supreme Court building in Bank Lane yesterday.
Leon Smith had gone to the Bar Association seeking to be reinstated after he was disbarred in 2004, presenting the missing accounting for $400,000 which had been missing from the previous tribunal and resulted in him being fined and st...
Several AG's Office lawyers call in sick
October 25, 2010
Several AG's Office lawyers call in sick
By NATARIO McKENZIE
Tribune Staff Reporter
nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net
WHILE several lawyers attached to the Attorney General's Office called in sick yesterday, it remains unclear if this was connected to the mould problem that persists in the Post Office building.
Sources close to the matter claimed that as many as 17 lawyers failed to turn up. Attorney General John Delaney could not verify th...
NO ACTION AGAINST LAWYERS ACCUSED OF MISCONDUCT
October 26, 2010
NO ACTION AGAINST LAWYERS ACCUSED OF MISCONDUCT
By MEGAN REYNOLDS
Tribune Staff Reporter
mreynolds@tribunemedia.net
LAYWERS criticised for serious misconduct in a 2003 Supreme Court ruling appear to have escaped disciplinary action from the Bar Association, as transcripts from the trial have not yet been received.
Senior Justice John Lyons accused lawyer Derrence Rolle and James Thompson of serious misconduct and wasting court time as they ...
Lawyer sought in church theft probe
October 29, 2010
Lawyer sought in church theft probe
Police want to question lawyer Romeo Ramsey about a theft complaint from a church, The Nassau Guardian has confirmed.
Officers from the Commercial Crimes Section of the Central Detective Unit want to question Ramsey about the alleged theft of more than $200,000 from a church on Farrington Road, said Superintendent Leon, the commanding officer of the Central Detective Unit.
Supt. Bethell confirmed ...
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