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In a dispute between a beneficiary and a trustee, access to legal advice received by the trustee can be of paramount importance to the beneficiary's efforts to impeach the trustee's conduct.

Section 47 of the Bermudian Trustee Act 1975 allows for the restructure of trusts in circumstances where the requisite power to implement the variation is absent from the trust instrument.

A Supreme Court decision handed down on Monday is a stark reminder that employers should tread very carefully when promoting employees.

The Court recently set out an interesting ruling on costs relating to an application for indemnity costs and a third party costs order.

The Privy Council has for the first time validated, albeit cautiously, the existence of the doctrine commonly known as ‘backwards tracing'.

Bermuda has amended the Trusts (Special Provisions) Act 1989 to modernise its ‘firewall' provisions and to introduce flexibility and clarity with respect to excluding illegitimate children from...

It is well established that a contract between a bank and its customer includes an implied term that the bank will use reasonable skill and care in and about executing a client's instruction and will not execute instructions ...

This means that clients of Cayman Islands' firms with foreign international offices cannot recover the fees of lawyers in those offices in relation to Cayman legal

In a landmark judgment, the Board overturned a controversial line of English authority by finding that it is not a legal requirement in a claim for deceit...

In Bermuda, our superior court of first instance, the Supreme Court of Bermuda, has the power to judicially review the determinations of public decision makers.

This week the Government of Bermuda launched a new information portal. Completely redesigned and revamped, it appears to be quite user friendly...

Bermuda is a self-governing colony; its head of state is the head of state of the United Kingdom. Bermuda has a written constitution which has been in operation since 21 February 1968.

This case has been keenly discussed across major international private client and trust common law jurisdictions.

Bermuda's final appeals court has handed down its decision in a long-running case which had the potential to significantly change the landscape of immigration rights in Bermuda.

The New Zealand Supreme Court in Clayton speculated that an illusory trust may become a valid trust when the settlor's role in relation to the trust changes.

On 25 February 2026, Mr. Justice Andrew Martin of the Supreme Court of Bermuda issued an interlocutory ruling in the matter of Moulder v. Cox Hallett Wilkinson et al. [2026] SC (Bda) 21 Civ (25 February 2026).

Following our recent advisory on the Bermuda Supreme Court decision in the matter of Up Energy Development Group Limited Supreme Court (Comm) Bda 2016: No. 183...