The Court of Appeal strongly disagreed with this logic and ordered that the appeal should in any event be public.

In July 2014 the Bermuda legislature enacted the Trustee Amendment Act 2014. The effect of this statutory reform was to insert a new section 47A into the Trustee Act 1975.

The intersection between the court's power to bless the decision of a trustee and the impact of a settlor's wishes on trustee

It is once again time for Appleby's round-up of significant decisions handed down by the courts of our various jurisdictions in the preceding year.

From 9 July 2018, derivative actions commenced in Bermuda may not be continued without leave from the Supreme Court.

The Chief Justice of Bermuda has handed down an important decision dealing with the power of the court to intervene

We recently authored litigation guides for the five offshore law jurisdictions we advise on for the Chambers Global Practice Guides, 2021:

A recent decision of the Bermuda Supreme Court has dealt with the question of whether a change of governing law of a trust and disapplication of the rule against perpetuities will result in a resettlement of the trust.

In order for a foreign judgment to be enforced in the BVI, it must either be: (1) registered and recognised as enforceable under the Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act 1922; or ...

Conyers represented the successful respondent trustees in the recent Court of Appeal decision in Wang, Ven Jiao v Grand View PTC & Ors [2021] Civil Appeal No.4, in which the Court refused...

In a judgment dated 25 January 2021, the Supreme Court has exercised the jurisdiction arising under section 47A of the Trustee Act 1975 to set aside a variation of a trust (which itself had followed a successful application ...

In the 1990's Bermuda sought to take advantage of the growing need for resolving disputes in international trade and commerce by arbitration rather than by litigation in national courts.

In the November edition of the Private Client & Trust Bulletin, we sat down with Conyers Director, Jeffrey Elkinson.

With the holiday season fast approaching and with it the obligatory work related holiday parties, a recent ruling in the UK regarding the vicarious liability of an employer in respect of an injury...

As the use of arbitration as a means of dispute resolution has grown in popularity, there has been a marked increase in the need for arbitral awards to be recognised and enforced in offshore jurisdictions.

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Bermuda struck out a constitutional claim made by the Allied Trust and Allied Development Partners Limited in relation to the voiding of the Waterfront agreements.

We have previously written a post about the Supreme Court's decision in Bermuda Press (Holdings) v Registrar of the Supreme Court in which the Chief Justice considered the public's right of access...

The English Court of Appeal's decision in Khan v D'Aubigny is a must-read for litigators, tackling the perennial issue of valid service...

On 18 August 2025, the Supreme Court of Bermuda delivered its judgment in the case of Annuity & Life Re Ltd and Pope Asset Management LLC v Kingboard Copper Foil Holdings Ltd and Others...

The recent judgment issued by the Supreme Court of Bermuda in the case of In the Matter of the AB Settlement [2022] SC (Bda) 92 Civ provides very helpful authority on the question...