The Court of Appeal considered the availability of compensation for flight delays in circumstances where a passenger booked connecting flights with a non-community carrier, departing from an EU airport...

The Bermuda National Anti-Money Laundering Committee (NAMLC) recently published a draft Proceeds of Crime Miscellaneous Act 2025 (Bill) for consultation in preparation for Bermuda's 5th Round Mutual Evaluation...

Recent insurer registrations reported by the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) show that Bermuda continues to deliver on its established reputation for finding innovative solutions for...

The enforcing party (CAT) argued that, having taken this approach, Priosma had forfeited its right to reargue the point before the Bermuda Court.

The substantive provisions of the Bermuda Personal Information Protection Act 2016 (PIPA) are expected to come into operation later this year.

For policies issued in the Bermuda market, (re)insureds and (re)insurers typically agree a fairly standardised "Bermuda style' arbitration and governing law clause which requires disputes...

On 23 April 2018, judgment was handed down by the Privy Council in the long running dispute of Investec Trust (Guernsey) Limited and another v Glenalla and others.

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

Bermuda, as a British Overseas Territory, is a party to the Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extra-Judicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters (the Convention) ...

On 1 January 2025, the Personal Information Protection Act, 2016 ("PIPA"), finally came into full force and effect in Bermuda.

The hardening of the insurance markets may have reduced the appetite for certain emerging risks but the increasing prevalence of so-called digital assets, including cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings, ...

While shareholders rightly view themselves as owners of the company in which they hold their shares, as any student of English company law will know from the seminal nineteenth century decision in Salomon v Salomon.

The arrival of new entrants to the ILS market has demonstrated continued investor confidence in Bermuda as a domicile.

The Bermuda Monetary Authority has published a White Paper entitled Evolution of Asset Intensive Insurance - Update to the Supervision and Regulation of Private Equity Insurers in Bermuda.

The House of Lords handed down judgment on 2 July 2008 in the Scottish case of “Spencer- Franks –v- Kellogg Brown and Root Limited and Others (2008) UKHL 46”, which heralds a change of interpretation in how the Courts should look at whether an employer has breached the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations [“PUWER”] 1998, which replaced the previous PUWER 1992 regulations.

There have been recent changes for Bermuda companies in relation to the gathering and registration of beneficial ownership details and more changes are on the horizon, following a consultation on proposed amendments to the Exchange Control Regulations 1973.

In Deslauriers v Guardian Asset Management Limited [09.11.2017] (on appeal from the Court of Appeal of Trinidad & Tobago), the Board of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council considered whether the respondent, ...

A number of leisure and outdoor activities carry inherent risks, in this particular case, climbing and other so called “adrenaline” induced activities.

The LCIA's publication of 24 challenge decisions (2017–2022) highlights increased transparency, the difficulty of arbitrator challenges, their deterrent effect, and comparisons with global arbitral institutions.