#legal service

The bill approved by cabinet to reform the audit office, creating a new audit board, will be submitted to the legal service for legal and technical examinations before the end ...

Cabinet on Wednesday approved a set of bills which, if passed, will change the face of Cyprus’ legal service and audit office. The government says the bills constitute “modernising” reforms, ...

Two controversial bills aimed at introducing reforms at the legal service and audit office will be ready next month Justice Minister Marios Hartsiotis said on Thursday, amid expected backlash over ...

The Audit Office on Thursday hit back against a government proposal seeking to reform the independent institution, amid accusations this would be a means to stifle the reports of the ...

The European Commission on Wednesday urged Cyprus to move forward in strengthening the independence of the legal service, amid calls for convictions for high-level cases of corruption. In its 2024 Rule ...

Neither the legal service nor the police were found to have leaked information to local and foreign media in connection with a criminal case brought against a leading property developer ...

The Legal Service on Friday questioned the timing behind the anti-corruption authority’s announcement on the divide surrounding former drug squad chief Michalis Katsounotos. Sticking to its guns, the Legal ...

Auditor-General Odysseas Michaelides on Friday morning  filed opposition proceedings against the legal service’s motion to have him suspended from his post. The first hearing will take place on Thursday. ...

A study on the framework for the separation of powers between the legal service and the justice ministry has been completed as part of a bill submitted to parliament, Justice ...

The Legal Service has no intention to challenge the court verdict on Thanasis Nicolaou that ruled he was strangled, it emerged on Thursday. Sources from the service said they were ...

Deputy attorney-general Savvas Angelides on Sunday called for an independent investigation into auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides. In an interview with newspaper Kathimerini, he said “any sane thinking person would demand to ...

The government has sent the findings of its investigation into the flooding of state computer services to the Legal Service, Research Deputy Minister Nikodimos Damianou said on Friday. Speaking to ...

The attorney-general’s office irregularly authorised an out-of-court settlement with a company that saddled the Cypriot taxpayer with €700,000, while separately failing to pay VAT for services rendered to it by ...

A draft bill to modernise the legal service and the audit office will be brought in front of the legislature within the year, Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Friday. ...

By Andria Kades and Elias Hazou In a strongly worded statement, Attorney-General George Savvides said he would be referring lawyer Efstathios Efstathiou to the bar association for potential disciplinary offences, ...

Following the crash of the e-justice system within a day of its launch on Monday, the audit office will next week send a report to the IT department of the ...

The anti-corruption authority will publish findings regarding conflicts of interest within the legal service, it was revealed on Thursday. The allegations against the legal service include a slew of complaints, ...

The building of the legal service of a state is a point of reference in the capital and must have a high aesthetic image and functionality, the architect Eleni Pattichis, ...

The legal service is dealing with one of its biggest ever caseloads surrounding the ‘golden passport’ scandal, with over 110 box files of data to be processed, it emerged on Friday. ...

The transport ministry has cancelled a tender for a new building for the legal service due to “proper management of public finances” it announced on Friday. As a result, plans ...

After the announcement that a parliamentary committee would convene to examine a complaint against independent MP Andreas Themistocleous, alleged to have made ‘abusive remarks’ against Greens MP Alexandra Attalidou, police ...

The family of national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou, whose lifeless body was found under a bridge in Alassa back in 2005, spoke of their disappointment on Friday when leaving the offices of ...

Police chief Stylianos Papatheodorou on Thursday said they would discuss with the state legal service what to do next after the administrative court this week nullified the hiring of 75 police ...

The state Legal Service has forwarded the findings of an inquiry into the citizenship by investment programme to police with instructions to investigate whether any criminal offences had been committed ...