#cyprus courts

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 ...

A 62-year-old businessman was remanded for four days by the Larnaca district court on Wednesday in connection with ten serious offences under investigation, from which he allegedly gained €12 million. The ...

Two women arrested over a TikTok livestream in which a child with Down syndrome was allegedly encouraged to perform indecent acts were released by the Nicosia district court on Thursday ...

The supreme court has rejected attorney-general George Savvides’ appeal against the annulment of the search warrant for two safety deposit boxes belonging to social media personality Natalie Tziapoura, ruling that ...

Extradition proceedings are currently being heard before the Cypriot courts regarding an alleged investment fraud of approximately €18 million euros. The proceedings are against Dutch and Belgian nationals. At Wednesday’s ...

Two witnesses told the Nicosia permanent criminal court on Wednesday that they donated thousands of euros towards a church chandelier and an icon at the Avakoum monastery, but never saw ...

A man convicted for sexual offences against a minor has seen his appeal dismissed by the court of appeal, which upheld the prison sentences of eight months to three years ...

The Supreme Court has allowed a person being investigated for illegal access to information systems, illegal interference with data and illegal interception, to file an application for a certiorari privileged ...

Court proceedings in the ‘Zavrantonas’ case continued on Friday with the cross examination of key prosecution witness Yiannis ‘Maronas’ Andreou, who on Thursday had told the court he had initially ...

An appeal lodged against a prison sentence imposed for two accounts of attempted murder has been dismissed by the court of appeals, which ratified the 16-year sentences as not being ...

The legislation protecting trapped buyers was enacted to remedy a serious and long-standing distortion in the real estate market. Many purchasers, despite having paid the purchase price in full and ...

The north’s supreme court’s chief justice Bertan Ozerdag on Sunday renewed his call for a referendum to be held with a view to enacting sweeping reforms to the ...

The criminal court in Larnaca on Monday rejected as premature an application by a 48-year-old defendant to dismiss the Pyla torture case on the grounds of abuse of process. The ...

The protection of immovable property is a fundamental principle of Cypriot law. Trespass upon land constitutes a serious infringement of the right to possession and enjoyment of property and entitles ...

The court of appeal has increased a prison sentence from seven years to ten years on each of 48 charges involving the sexual abuse of a minor, authorities said on Thursday. ...

An application for a total of €41 million worth of compensation from the Republic of Cyprus filed by the displaced Turkish Cypriot owners of land on which both Paphos airport and ...

The Nicosia district court ruled on Friday to admit hearsay testimony in the criminal proceedings concerning the death of 14-year-old Stylianos Constantinou in 2019, paving the way for evidence from his ...

Child maintenance is one of the most sensitive areas of family law because its central concern is not the financial dispute between parents, but the safeguarding of the child’s ...

Court proceedings into the suicide of 14-year-old Stylianos Constantinou continued on Friday with the cross examination of criminal investigator Andreas Andreou, who said that when a child attempts to end ...