July saw a fond farewell to retiring Bailif Sir Philip Bailhache; the swearing in of his successor, Michael Birt; completion of the NatWest Island Games in Aland; a special birthday bash at Durrell, attended by thousands of Islanders as well as countless other news and sporting events. The gallery is just a selection of some of the highlights.nextpage
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Basel Trust spared ‘legal purgatory’
JERSEY’S Royal Court has unfrozen assets seized in 2007 in relation to an ongoing case in the United States against the founder of an internet gaming company.
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Court backing for child’s special care
THE Jersey Court of Appeal has quashed a decision by Health to refuse to pay for special therapeutic care in the UK for a vulnerable child. This week the Deputy Bailiff, Michael Birt, and English QCs Michael Beloff and John Martin overturned a ruling given by the Bailiff, Sir Philip Bailhache, earlier this year. Sir […]
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A Week in Politics
THERE are some States debates that you just know aren’t going to go well.
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Bailiff: Why I will not e-mail Senator Syvret
THE Bailiff today told Senator Stuart Syvret that he was not prepared to enter into correspondence with someone who had described him as having the ‘ethics of a Bangkok pimp’. During the arrangement of public business in the States, Senator Syvret was asking why one of his propositions — concerning an investigation into the death […]
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United in freedom
ISLANDERS from all nations and creeds who contribute to Jersey have a right to think of themselves as Jersey people, the Bailiff said in his Liberation Day speech.
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Another year, another review of Bailiff’s role
A MAJOR review could see the Bailiff, Attorney General, Solicitor General, Lieutenant-Governor and Dean removed from the States next year. But there is no prospect of changes being in place by the time Sir Philip Bailhache’s successor takes over the role of Bailiff in June. Deputy Bob Hill has tabled a proposition to review the […]
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New Bailiff to take up reins in June
DEPUTY Bailiff Michael Birt will become the Island’s Bailiff in June. The Queen has approved the appointment of the former Attorney General, following a recommendation by Lord Falconer of Thoroton, the Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs. Sir Philip Bailhache, who steps down from the role of Bailiff this summer, has been Bailiff since 1995. […]
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Marilyn Monroe exhibition opening night
THE glitz and glamour of ‘old Hollywood’ came to the Island at the weekend. Jersey Museum played host to more than 260 people on Friday night – including the Bailiff, Sir Philip Bailhache and the Lieutenant-Governor, Lieutenant-General Andrew Ridgway – to celebrate the launch of the largest exhibition of film costumes and memorabilia belonging to […]
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‘We must fight this gross interference’
MOVES in Westminster to make Islanders show passports when entering the UK would be a ‘very gross interference with one Jersey long-standing constitutional privileges’, the newly-retired Bailiff has warned.
