Legal View

The European Commission on Thursday fined Meta Platforms META.O €797.72 million ($840.24 million) over abusive practices benefiting Facebook Marketplace, it said in a statement, confirming an earlier report by Reuters. “The ...

A six-year jail term for a child rape conviction was “manifestly inadequate” the Supreme Court ruled as it moved to increase the jail time to nine years, it emerged on ...

Concerns were raised on Tuesday over suggested reforms to the state’s law and audit offices during the first meeting at the attorney-general’s office to examine constitutional issues arising ...

The U.S. said on Tuesday it may ask a judge to force Alphabet’s Google to divest parts of its business, such as its Chrome browser and Android operating ...

By Marios Konstantinou For decades, buyers without title deeds have beset the Cyprus property market. Thus, the House of Representatives intervened with legislation to protect the buyer of land and ...

Coleen Rooney, wife of ex-England soccer captain Wayne Rooney, spent more than 1.8 million pounds on a high-profile libel case brought against her by Rebekah Vardy, wife of her husband’s ...

By Marios Konstantinou For decades, buyers without title deeds have beset the Cyprus property market. Thus, the House of Representatives intervened with legislation to protect the buyer of land and ...

Trusts are a fundamental component of equity law, designed to manage assets for the benefit of specific beneficiaries. Among the various types of trusts, constructive trusts are particularly complex and ...

Every lawyer must have as a primary concern the interest of the client, who often seeks advice in view of investment, activity or property development. They should be honest, sincere ...

By Michael Pelosiand Emilios Charalambous With the rapid technological progress that is taking place, EU legislators have been actively trying to keep up and enhance the regulatory provisions in the ...

By Eleni Philippou The urban landscape has undoubtedly changed in Cyprus over the last 30 years. Previously, strewn with mostly individual or semi-detached houses, it is now bursting with apartment buildings, ...

An Australian court ruled on Friday that removing a transgender woman from female-only social networking platform Giggle for Girls constituted discrimination, in a landmark decision on gender identity for the ...

Johnson & Johnson JNJ.N is preparing to unveil widespread support in coming days for a $6.48 billion offer to settle tens of thousands of legal actions alleging its Baby Powder ...

By Stella Koukounis Summer in Cyprus means balmy nights by the beach, where the humidity and hot temperatures become bearable by the trips to various music planets, courtesy of a ...

US Senator Bob Menendez submitted his resignation on Tuesday in the aftermath of his conviction on corruption charges including bribery and acting as an agent for Egypt’s government, bowing ...

In many cases, criminal charges are dropped or dismissed before the case ever goes to trial. For the defendant, this is a major relief, ultimately allowing them to continue their ...

A U.S. judge in Florida on Monday dismissed the criminal case accusing Donald Trump of illegally holding onto classified documents after leaving office, handing the Republican former president another ...

 A New Mexico judge dismissed involuntary manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin on Friday, agreeing with his lawyers that prosecutors and police withheld evidence on the source of the live round ...

Free speech organisations welcomed the news of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s release from jail in Britain but said the U.S. case had still set a bad precedent for ...

Israel’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the state must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary into the military, a decree with the potential to divide Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’...

Qualcomm has agreed to pay $75 million to resolve a lawsuit in which shareholders accused the chipmaker of defrauding them by hiding its anticompetitive sales and licensing practices. A preliminary all-cash ...

The capital markets team of Elias Neocleous & Co LLC has successfully assisted Premier Energy PLC in relation to the initial public offering (IPO) and listing on the Bucharest Stock ...

If a beneficiary does not comply with a judgment obtained upon condition, they are deemed to have abandoned it The wording of a court judgment or order is significant and ...

By Amy Maguire The request by Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders is a significant step in the ...