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This guide to Bermuda dispute resolution and litigation includes
commentary on litigation funding, initiating a lawsuit, statutes of
limitations, representative or collective actions, pre-trial
litigation proceedings, discovery, injunctive relief, settlement,
damages, appeals, litigation costs, alternative dispute resolution
(ADR) and arbitration.
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General Characteristics of the Legal System
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country s legal system. For example: is it based on civil law
or common law? Does it follow an adversarial or inquisitorial
model? Is the legal process conducted through both written
It is a strange thing in this country with so many rivers flowing into the sea right round the island, as soon as the rains cease there is a drought and there are thousands affected with no possibility of getting anything out of what they have cultivated, be it rice or vegetables. And while the rains last there are a number of places that get inundated with roads impassable and people displaced from their abodes.
If one recalls the history of this blessed isle it was King Parakramabahu the Great who said that not a drop of water should be allowed to go into the sea without being made use of. That was the era when Sri Lanka exported rice to other neighbouring countries. How did they do this? They had neither sophisticated equipment nor machines that are available now. They also did not have the help of foreign qualified experts. But with whatever skills they had they were able to achieve what they wanted. All this was done by conserving the water from the seasonal rains the islan
(With Contempt of Court cases making news recently, we publish today an article written by E.C.B. Wijeyesinghe, a famous journalist of yesteryear on the Contempt of Court case against the Editor of the Daily News in the nineteen thirties)
One of the occupational hazards of the editor of a newspaper is to suffer for other people’s sins. There is, of course, a sacred precedent for this kind of undeserved torture: but you cannot put up that plea in mitigation of the punishment when you stand face to face with the majesty of the law. In case you are eager to know what I am driving at, let me say at once that this is just a preamble to a story about an illustrious editor of the Ceylon Daily News who escaped by the skin of his teeth from spending a holiday in the Welikade Prison.
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All urgent matters and new charge sheets are being heard at all Magistrates’ Courts that are operational. However, all other matters at those courts will be adjourned.
In addition, the Registrar of the Supreme Court has advised that Saturday court at District “A” will resume from today. All accused have been requested to present themselves to the court on the dates given to obtain new dates.
Meanwhile, all District “A” courts have resumed operations, and the District “F”/Horse Hill and District “B”/Boarded Hall Magistrates’ Courts are operational.
People with existing matters at these courts are requested to call the court offices to obtain new dates, as all such offices are operational.
Professor Margaret Kweku, NDC Parliamentary Candidate for Hohoe Constituency and the four other Interested Parties have today filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking a review of the court rsquo;s decision on 5th January 2021 to quash certain orders a High Court in Ho made on 23rd December 2020, including an order to restrain Peter Amewu from holding himself out as Member of Parliament -Elect for Hohoe Constituency. Eighteen grounds of the fundamental error of law have b