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Entries tagged

‘law’

EventDate
John Pinel stands trial for abduction 23rd December
Dispute breaks out over ownership of a road 24th November
Bailiff Cecil Stanley Harrison is born 17th November
The States makes it illegal for anyone in Jersey to own a nuclear weapon 14th November
Ralph Vibert is born 7th November
Henry Seymour Conway is appointed Governor of Jersey 22nd October
Bailiff and occupation escapee Peter Crill dies 3rd October
Jersey man in court accused of bigamy 28th August
Jersey men are permitted to marry their dead wives’ sisters 24th August
Courts declare widow mentally competent 4th July
Same-sex marriage becomes legal 1st July
Jersey court fines man three months’ pay for swearing 4th May
Jersey tries to abolish church pews sale 23rd April
The St Saviour wireless case show trial 9th April
An attempted elopement fails 7th April
Jersey rewrites its inheritance laws 23rd March
St Helier gunman is sentenced to death 20th March
Jersey and Edinburgh courts argue over inmate 7th March
States treasurer is charged with embezzlement 27th February
Murder appeal saves man’s life but results in his transportation 22nd February
A suspected arms dealer is arrested at his father’s funeral 20th February
Jersey’s courts are criticised for leaving a man in limbo 18th February
Jersey courts ponder accountant’s extradition 9th February
Courts decide who owns St Aubin’s railway 6th February
French sailors are arrested on an extradition request 13th January
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