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By Tom Cleaver Attorney-general George Savvides on Thursday met China’s Deputy Justice Minister Wang Yuwen. According to the Cypriot government, the pair “exchanged views on the state of laws, ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has been let off the hook for some €55,000 the audit office had called on him to return to state coffers, after the attorney-general nullified the findings former ...

Over 6,000 open civil cases are on the desk of the attorney-general’s office, MPs heard on Monday. The House finance committee was reviewing the budget for the attorney-general’s office ...

Thousands of people gathered on Sunday to protest former Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides’ dismissal by the Supreme Constitutional Court. The case for his dismissal was brought to the court by Attorney-General ...

Efforts to reform the legal service and audit office will plough ahead as planned, without any changes, Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Friday. In statements to the Cyprus News ...

Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides was fired on Wednesday following a Supreme Constitutional Court decision, as he called the outcome a “black day for Cyprus.” In a unanimous ruling, a panel of ...

Attorney-general George Savvides and deputy attorney-general Savvas Angelides,along with Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotison Tuesday met the deputy attorney-general of the People’s Republic of China Chen Guoqing to exchange ...

The government has gone ahead with the preparation of the constitutional reform it had proposed for the state legal service and the audit office, with Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis saying ...

The final fight over whether Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides is fit to continue in his post was battled out at the Supreme Constitutional Court on Friday, with the Attorney General’...

The critical role of Cyprus’ legal framework in efforts to resolve the Cyprus problem was at the centre of the discussions during the opening of the Cyprus Bar Association’s ...

There has been a ‘systemic issue’ in not granting auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides access to key data, the Supreme Constitutional Court heard on Monday, as the case filed for his dismissal ...

The hearing for Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides’ dismissal was postponed on Thursday, as an expert witness from Intosai (International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions) was unable to attend the court ...

Court proceedings are set to continue on Thursday over the request of the Attorney General, Giorgos Savvides, to suspend Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides for improper conduct. The latest advance in ...

The problems the auditor-general is facing reminded me of a conversation I had a few years ago with the late Rustem Tatar Cyprus’ first auditor-general 1960-63, and father of the ...

The Supreme Court will announce its decision on Wednesday morning, regarding the preliminary objection of Auditor General, Odysseas Michaelides, in the case registered by Attorney General George Savvides for his ...

The Supreme Constitutional Court is set to announce its decision on June 5 on whether attorney-general George Savvides is constitutionally allowed to initiate dismissal proceedings against auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides. During Wednesday’...