#cyprus courts

A 43-year-old Syrian man who confessed to killing 61-year-old Olga Vasilieva was remanded in custody for a further eight days by the Limassol district court on Monday. The man admitted ...

Police carried out one of the biggest ever nationwide operations against organised crime on Thursday when 26 people were taken in for questioning, search warrants were executed in 27 premises and vehicles, 37 ...

Nicosia criminal court on Tuesday allowed prosecutors to add one more person to their list of witnesses in the trial concerning the theft of thousands of documents from the central ...

A 37-year-old man was remanded by Nicosia district court for six days on Tuesday suspected of involvement in a case of labour exploitation, threats of violence and other related offences. ...

The Limassol permanent criminal court found four men guilty of the premeditated murder of Thanasis Kalogeropoulos on Friday, a verdict that carries a mandatory life sentence. The court concluded that ...

Police on Thursday summoned a woman for questioning after she allegedly attempted to enter the Limassol district court carrying a knife. Speaking to the Cyprus Mail, the police could not ...

The Supreme Court has ordered the release of an Iranian national who was held in custody for 12 months pending deportation, finding that the length of time he had spent in ...

The court of appeal ordered a three-year suspension of prison sentences imposed on a man for burglaries and other offences, deeming that the court of first instance had not taken ...

A life sentence was handed down on Tuesday to the man convicted of killing 22-year-old Bangladeshi national Shahruar Ahmed Emon in June, with the man having been convicted of premeditated ...

The court case concerning the death of 14-year-old Stylianos Constantinou, who took his own life in 2019, continued with further testimony before the Nicosia district court on Monday. In her testimony, ...

Sentencing proceedings for the British father who pleaded guilty in connection with the death of his three-year-old son were postponed until Tuesday morning after a supporting document needed by the ...

The court of appeal has increased the prison sentences of two individuals for the possession of 211 grams of methamphetamine with the intention to supply, deeming the sentences imposed on them ...

A British father whose three-year-old son died after falling from a fourth-floor hotel window in Paphos arrived at court on Monday morning, where he is due to be sentenced after ...

Inheritance is a fundamental institution of succession law, as it governs the transfer of a person’s estate upon death. Under Cyprus law, an estate devolves upon those entitled to ...

The trial into the shooting incident on January 17 in central Larnaca has been postponed for October 13. Six people have been referred to the Larnaca criminal court in connection with the ...

Three siblings inherit an immovable property and hold it in undivided shares. One wishes to make use of his share and seeks partition, while the others disagree. Can their refusal ...

The parents of a three-year-old boy who fell to his death on Saturday evening from the sixth-floor apartment in which the family lived were remanded in custody for five days ...

Commercial transactions are founded on trust and on the expectation that every payment serves a specific purpose. A deposit, the purchase price or any other payment is made because the ...

The Supreme Court has found that the state failed to properly investigate the disappearance of two men abducted in 1974, ruling that their families suffered violations of their human rights and ...

We have been hearing about the need for reform of the legal system and the legal service for many years now. No matter how many times this is mentioned in ...

A seven-day remand order was issued on Friday against a 22-year-old to facilitate investigations into the mugging of delivery drivers in Paphos. The Paphos district court heard that this was ...

Court summer holidays in Cyprus are a “very good” system that serves several purposes, Nicosia bar association chairman Stefanos Skordis said on Thursday. Skordis said similar arrangements were in place ...

A 44-year-old businessman facing charges in an alleged extortion case will remain in custody after the Larnaca criminal court rejected his request for conditional release on Thursday. The court ruled ...

The prosecution and the defence squabbled on Thursday on the admissibility of phone communications as evidence in the ongoing trial of Giorgos ‘Zavrantonas’ Christodoulou. Christodoulou is on trial before Nicosia ...