Activist Ayo Kimathi is challenging the Bermuda Government’s decision to bar him from entering the country and the legality of the Human Rights Commission’s investigation of a complaint against him. Both decisions are unlawful because they violate constitutional protections of freedom of expression, conscience and political opinion, according to his lawyer Eugene Johnston. Yesterday, chief justice Ian...
Constitutional challenge put on ice
Can resume once stewardship is over; Minister cannot use powers to end City of Hamilton proceedings against Bermuda Government - Chief Justice
Government can not use its powers to take over a municipality to squash a case against itself, Chief Justice Ian Kawaley has ruled. But an ongoing constitutional challenge to those powers will have to wait until a new City of Hamilton government is elected next month. Justice Kawaley ruled that the challenge by the Corporation...