MPs discuss extension to time to appeal a conviction
The window of opportunity to file an appeal after a criminal conviction should be increased from three months to six months, the House legal committee agreed on Wednesday, after a ...
Top court postpones decision in Thanasis Nicolaou case
The Supreme Court will announce its decision over the case surrounding Thanasis Nicolaou’s death at a later unspecified date, after Monday’s hearing had lawyers from each side put ...
Leave of the court of liquidation covers appeal
The relevant provision of Article 220 of the Companies Law Cap. 113 provides that in the event that a company liquidation order has been issued or a temporary liquidator appointed, no action ...
Appeals court overturns rape appeal
The Cypriot appeals court has upheld the eight-year sentence of a 36-year-old man who raped a 20-year-old British waitress in Ayia Napa in 2019, it emerged on Tuesday.
A criminal court ...
Appeal proceedings start in David Hunter case
Cyprus’ court of appeals on Tuesday began legal proceedings in the appeal against British pensioner David Hunter’s sentence and court verdict.
The three-member bench gave both prosecution and defence ...
Knife-wielding Ukrainian woman freed from jail
A Ukrainian woman who was jailed in March after wielding a knife at a pro-Russia gathering in Larnaca has been freed after successfully appealing her conviction.
The 55-year-old was jailed ...
Attorney-general appeals 11-year sentence for sexual abuser of minors
Attorney-General Giorgos Savvides on Wednesday appealed the ‘manifestly inadequate’ 11-year prison sentence recently imposed on a man for sexually abusing two minors under the age of 13 in Limassol.
The accused ...
Top court rejects man’s murder sentence appeal
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an appeal to reduce the 17-year sentence handed down by the criminal court to a 23-year-old convicted of the murder of a 19-year-old Syrian ...
Admissibility of an appeal against an acquittal
An appeal is allowed only on points of law and the court of appeal does not go into issues of evidence evaluation
The maxim that no person can be prosecuted ...
Supreme Court due to rule on rape case appeal on Monday
The Supreme Court’s decision on whether to uphold or remove the conviction of a young British woman who was accused of lying about being gang-raped, will be important for ...
State appeals co-op bank acquittals
The attorney-general filed appeals Thursday against a recent criminal court decision, which acquitted all defendants of fraud charges relating to loans secured from the Strovolos cooperative bank.
In a tweet, ...