#lawyer

Last Sunday Arsenal played West Ham in the English Premier League. It was a hugely important game with Arsenal needing a win to lead the table two points ahead of ...

Cyprus recorded the highest number of lawyers per capita but one of the longest delays in resolving cases according to a new Council of Europe (CoE) report released on Wednesday. ...

Lawyers across the country held a one-hour protest outside district courts on Friday, over the mess which has beset the e-justice system. This is the second protest this week, where ...

The legal service is hiring 17 lawyers to handle asylum-related matters, it emerged on Wednesday. In a statement, the legal service said it was inviting expressions of interest for the positions. ...

The legal profession in Cyprus can only be exercised by registered and licensed lawyers, with the exception of a physical person, being a litigant, who can represent themselves before the ...

A big-name lawyer swindled millions of euros out of her clients, involving in them in pyramid-scheme type tactics, a report said on Monday. According to a report in Politis, a ...

Opposition party Disy called for the issue of lawyers taking advantage of migrants to be discussed at the house interior committee, in a letter sent to parliament on Friday, after ...

Serious delays in Cyprus’ justice sector lead young lawyers to find jobs outside their expertise, a phenomenon worsened by “pittance pay”, the House legal committee heard on Wednesday. Newly appointed ...

A total of 110 young lawyers have joined the government’s training programme for new lawyers since the start of the year, with 250 expected to join, according to Labour Minister Yiannis ...

Lawyer Panayiotis Kleovoulou, who led an attack against a gathering of left-wing organisations at the Limassol public university in 2017, was sentenced to ten months in jail on Friday. The 63-year-old ...

The public protest has for years been a popular alternative to political discourse. If an interest group thinks its arguments are not being heard or have failed to convince the ...

Lawyers in Cyprus on Thursday morning held a pre-warned two-hour work stoppage protesting against new rules issued by the Supreme Court that would open the way for ‘express trials’. Between 9.30...

The Bar Association has at the last minute pulled out of a scheduled meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades, after a letter leaked on Tuesday which the association’s head had ...

The 12-month sentence imposed on the hit-and-run driver in a fatal Ayia Napa crash has been decried by the victim’s family as a “huge insult” in a statement issued ...

A Greek Cypriot barrister has broken the glass ceiling by becoming the first professional discipline barrister in the UK to achieve silk status. Marios Lambis, the son of Cypriot immigrants ...

The Cyprus Bar Association on Tuesday unveiled its Justice For All initiative to offer legal help to those facing financial difficulties. Bar Association president Christos Clerides said as a first ...

A survey of 2,500 young lawyers found that 51.2 per cent of women claimed that they have faced discrimination at work, with 3.5 per cent saying that they were assaulted or received threats. ...

By Alper Ali Riza A friend emailed last week after reading my column about the candidature of the human rights lawyer Achilleas Demetriades for president to remind me of the ...

Having reviewed the firm’s financial performance for 2020, the Elias Neocleous & Co LLC management extends thanks to all partners and staff for their hard work and dedication throughout a ...

A lawyer is challenging the constitutionality of the coronavirus restrictions – specifically the banning of demonstrations, rallies, parades and so on – while his client faces a fine of up to €50,000. Savvas ...

The Bar Association is set to sue the government over the easing of Covid restrictions announced on Wednesday that still limit the numbers of employees in workplaces to a skeleton ...