Posts tagged with "court"

Supreme Court rejects Astrasol appeal over Latsia cancer cluster Cyprus

Supreme Court rejects Astrasol appeal over Latsia cancer cluster

July 24th, 2018 The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal filed by the attorney-general and Astrasol over the company’s responsibility for creating a cancer cluster in the Latsia area. The legal wrangling dates back years after 21 employees of the now defunct shoe factory Astrasol filed a class-action lawsuit against owners Sotiris, Maroula...
Greek suspect in multiple crimes appears in court Cyprus

Greek suspect in multiple crimes appears in court

July 6th, 2018 Under strict security measures including armed police officers wearing bulletproof vests, a 30-year old man who was arrested on Friday was escorted to a Paphos court. The suspect is allegedly involved in 15 offences, among them the illegal transport and possession of explosives and firearms, the theft of two vehicles, assault and...
Court orders attorney-general to hand over evidence Cyprus

Court orders attorney-general to hand over evidence

June 29th, 2018 Nicosia district court in an interim ruling on Friday ordered Attorney-General to Costas Clerides to hand over findings from his investigations into former deputy police chief Andreas Kyriacou to the defendant’s team. The case before the court has the attorney-general prosecuting Kyriacou for allegedly leaking confidential...
Former co-op bosses plead not guilty to fraud Cyprus

Former co-op bosses plead not guilty to fraud

June 19th, 2018 Three former senior co-op bank officials and six others, including two companies, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to fraud in connection with loans worth €3.6m secured in 2007. The case was adjourned for November 5. Former Central Co-op Bank boss Erotokritos Chlorakiotis, former Strovolos Co-op boss Demetrakis Stavrou, and former...
Demolition of an illegal building Cyprus

Demolition of an illegal building

June 3rd, 2018 By George Coucounis The Municipal Council, District Officer or Community Council has the power to issue a building permit under which an interested person is allowed to commence building works, as long as the authority is satisfied that the permit relates to works for which the application is submitted in accordance with the Streets...
Myanmar policeman in Reuters reporters case details operation Asia

Myanmar policeman in Reuters reporters case details operation

May 9th, 2018 A Myanmar policeman now serving a prison sentence gave more details to a court on Wednesday about how he says two Reuters reporters were framed by police, in what has become a landmark press freedom case for the Southeast Asian nation. Police captain Moe Yan Naing, 47, who since his original testimony on April 20 has been sentenced...
Experts to present new plan for Cyprus courts Cyprus

Experts to present new plan for Cyprus courts

May 5th, 2018 A team of experts is expected to arrive in Cyprus next week to present suggestions on the review of the courts’ civil procedure rules, the Supreme Court said on Saturday. The team – led by Lord John Dyson – will be on the island on Tuesday and Wednesday to present to a special committee appointed by the Supreme Court the first...
Murder hearing postponed on paperwork glitch Cyprus

Murder hearing postponed on paperwork glitch

April 27th, 2018 A 42-year-old man accused of beating his mother to death earlier this year did not have his charges read out to him in court on Friday as he has failed to cooperate with authorities regarding paperwork. During the session at Limassol district court the man was told he had one more chance to give evidence to the welfare office which...
Crime had been planned for five years, double murder suspect says (Updated) Cyprus

Crime had been planned for five years, double murder suspect says (Updated)

April 26th, 2018 A suspect held in connection with the double murder of a couple in Nicosia said what happened had been planned for the past five years and that there had been help from the inside, a court heard on Thursday. Nicosia CID chief Koumettos Koumettou told the court that the 33-year-old suspect was arrested in Ayia Napa and transferred to...
Court of Appeals declines vote recount for 2016 Limassol mayoral race Cyprus

Court of Appeals declines vote recount for 2016 Limassol mayoral race

April 23rd, 2018 A court of appeal has upheld a decision by a court of first instance that rejected a recount of votes in the municipal elections in 2016 when former mayor Limassol Andreas Christou lost to Nicos Nicolaides by nine votes. Christou had filed an appeal with the supreme court against a decision by the electoral court which rejected his...
ECHR upholds complaint by ex inmate of degrading treatment at Nicosia prisons Cyprus

ECHR upholds complaint by ex inmate of degrading treatment at Nicosia prisons

April 3rd, 2018 By Evie Andreou The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday upheld the complaint brought against Cyprus by a Polish former inmate at the central prisons for degrading treatment. The case concerned the complaint of Robert Tadeusz Danilczuk, 53, a Polish national currently detained in Czarne Prison in Poland, of inadequate...
Limassol and Nicosia commerce chambers spat over court location Cyprus

Limassol and Nicosia commerce chambers spat over court location

March 23rd, 2018 Limassol chamber of commerce and industry expressed its surprise on Friday after its counterpart in Nicosia opposed the choice of Limassol as the location for the commercial court. “The chamber expresses its great surprise at yesterday's announcement by the Nicosia chamber, which criticizes the government’s decision to establish a...
Parents face criminal trial in baby's death Cyprus

Parents face criminal trial in baby's death

March 9th, 2018 The parents of a three-month-old baby who died from severe head injuries were on Friday referred to trial before the Paphos criminal court. The pair, both 29, were arrested for his death in February. The father faces two charges, manslaughter, which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, and causing death through a...
Ex central bank boss without lawyer in court Cyprus

Ex central bank boss without lawyer in court

March 7th, 2018 By Evie Andreou Former Central Bank governor Christodoulos Christodoulou who is a defendant in the Focus corruption case is expected to file a request to Nicosia Criminal Court to be given time to find another counsel as his lawyer, Savvas Angelides, resigned after assuming duties as the new defence minister. Christodoulou is to...
Father, son remanded in mauling death (update 2) Cyprus

Father, son remanded in mauling death (update 2)

March 2nd, 2018 A 54-year-old father and his son, 27, from Paphos, were remanded in custody on Friday in connection with the death of a Bulgarian woman who is thought to have been mauled by the suspects’ dogs last week in Yersokipou while she was out in the fields looking for work. The two are the owners of premises nearby where a number of dogs,...
Turkish court sentences six journalists to life - state media Turkey

Turkish court sentences six journalists to life - state media

February 16th, 2018 A Turkish court on Friday sentenced six journalists, including two prominent brothers, to life in jail for aiding plotters of a 2016 failed coup, state media said, a sharp turnaround after the country's highest court ordered one of the men released. Mehmet Altan, an economics professor and journalist, and his brother Ahmet, also a...
Two men remanded for fraud Cyprus

Two men remanded for fraud

February 13th, 2018 Two men were remanded in custody for eight days in Limassol on Tuesday in connection with obtaining over €2 million under false pretenses from the owner of a construction company who had been promised favourable loan restructurings and other arrangements relating to VAT debt and property acquisitions. The pair, 44 and 64, are being...
Prosecutors drop waste management charges Cyprus

Prosecutors drop waste management charges

January 26th, 2018 Prosecutors on Friday dropped charges against a civil servant who had been implicated in a waste management scandal, which also involved senior local authority officials. During a hearing before the Nicosia Criminal Court, the state prosecutor informed the judges that a prosecution witness, currently in jail for a related offence, had...
Spain govt asks court to block Puigdemont bid to lead Catalonia Europe

Spain govt asks court to block Puigdemont bid to lead Catalonia

January 26th, 2018 Spain's government on Friday appealed to the Constitutional Court to block former leader Carles Puigdemont's bid to lead Catalonia again, in an escalation of tensions between Madrid and Barcelona. Puigdemont fled to Belgium in October to avoid arrest for leading a secession bid and the government says he cannot be sworn in because he...
Two-month adjournment in co-op case Cyprus

Two-month adjournment in co-op case

January 25th, 2018 Prosecutors on Thursday secured a two-month postponement of a criminal case against former senior co-operative bank officials in connection with wrongdoings relating to loans worth around €3.6m. The prosecution requested adjournment for two months to give time for a subpoena to be delivered to one of the defendants who is in...
Eoka fighters win first historical torture battle in UK court Cyprus

Eoka fighters win first historical torture battle in UK court

January 12th, 2018 The UK’s Royal Courts of Justice on Friday rejected an attempt by the British government to try under Cypriot law a historical torture and abuse case brought against it by former Eoka fighters. The thirty-four elderly Greek Cypriots described the decision as the first battle in their claims regarding events that took place during...
Our View: Newspaper injunction in Loizidou case makes no sense Our View

Our View: Newspaper injunction in Loizidou case makes no sense

January 12th, 2018 AS WE had written here last week, when it comes to personal data protection common sense goes out the window. This principle has become sacred for the courts, which have been known to throw out cases of blatant wrongdoing on the grounds the defendant’s personal data had been violated, in bringing the charges. This week protection of...
‘Press freedom limited by Loizidou injunction’   Cyprus

‘Press freedom limited by Loizidou injunction’  

January 11th, 2018 The injunction against daily newspaper Politis preventing it from publishing leaked emails from suspended state attorney Eleni Loizidou’s email account serves no purpose other than to fuel negative international reactions on how the Cypriot justice system treats press freedom, the paper charged on Thursday. A day earlier, Nicosia...
Eoka vets in UK torture claim await initial court decision on Friday Cyprus

Eoka vets in UK torture claim await initial court decision on Friday

January 9th, 2018 Thirty-four Greek Cypriots will learn on Friday at the Royal Courts of Justice in the UK if they have achieved an initial victory in their claims against the British government regarding historic torture and abuse during the Eoka struggle between 1955-59. Justice Kerr of the Queen’s Bench Division presided over a Preliminary Hearing...
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