#Supreme Constitutional Court

The supreme court has ordered the release of an asylum seeker who had been held in custody for six months, stating that the Cypriot authorities had not undertaken due diligence ...

Disy MP Nikos Sykas appeared before the Limassol district court on Tuesday for the first hearing of his lawsuit challenging the party’s decision to suspend him from its ballot ...

The principle of proportionality is among the fundamental principles of modern public law and constitutes an integral element of the control of public power. Its operation, however, is neither unlimited ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the immediate release of a Turkish national of Kurdish origin who had been held in detention since March of last year for deportation purposes, ...

The right to a widow’s pension is inextricably linked to the person entitled to it and cannot be transferred to their heirs, the Supreme Constitutional Court ruled on Monday. ...

By a unanimous decision the Supreme Court on Thursday lifted the parliamentary immunity of Disy MP Nikos Sykas, allowing authorities to investigate allegations that he exercised physical violence against his ...

The government has no obligation to make a missing temporary civil servant permanent, the Supreme Constitutional Court ruled, and has thus thrown out an appeal by the missing person’s ...

The Supreme Constitutional Court has called on former auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides to submit all evidence he claims he has in his possession regarding “collusion and corruption” within the court in ...

The Supreme Constitutional Court of Cyprus began hearing a case on Wednesday over a disputed law requiring countdown timers at junctions monitored by traffic cameras. At the centre of the ...

The Supreme Constitutional Court on Tuesday upheld a prior ruling by a lower court which had voided a €25,000 administrative fine slapped on a brokerage firm executive by the Securities and ...

The big decision over the fate of Auditor General Odysseas Michaelides’ job is expected to be announced today at the Supreme Constitutional Court. Inevitably a high-stakes case, the hearing is ...

The Supreme Constitutional Court will be announcing its ruling on September 18 on the attorney-general’s request for the dismissal of the auditor-general on the grounds of inappropriate conduct. In a ...

Five high-profile court cases are set to dominate the headlines in the upcoming weeks, ranging from the contentious golden passports trial, the fate of the auditor-general’s job and Thanasis ...

Parliament has moved to file an objection over the president’s decision to refer the contentious capital statements legislation to the Supreme Constitutional Court, it was reported on Wednesday. The ...

The Supreme Court will announce its decision on Wednesday morning, regarding the preliminary objection of Auditor General, Odysseas Michaelides, in the case registered by Attorney General George Savvides for his ...

Conflicts of interest and an adjournment marked the beginning of the first court proceedings on Thursday, for the attorney-general’s motion to have the auditor-general removed from his post. The ...

The Supreme Constitutional Court on Thursday issued a ruling permitting the government spokesman and the undersecretary to the president to be present at sessions of the cabinet, provided they absent ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a case brought forward by Turkish Cypriots in mixed marriages with Turkish nationals seeking Cyprus citizenship for their children, citing that the individuals involved ...

Despite the public’s general disdain for public institutions, Cypriot justice is trusted, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Thursday at a swearing in ceremony for the new judges at the ...

The swearing-in ceremony of the new appellants of the Supreme Court takes place on Thursday at 10am, in the presence of President Nikos Christodoulides. The 16 new appellants were appointed on ...

Police identified an individual who called in a bomb threat to the supreme court on Friday, authorities told the Cyprus Mail. According to police, the individual was identified based on ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously decided to increase the prison sentence of a man who was found guilty of sexual abuse from four and a half to ten years, ...

House of Representatives is invoking the doctrine of necessity to undo a merged court that was itself created under the same doctrine The House of Representatives may reactivate Cyprus’ Supreme ...

Saying the courts have a responsibility to protect children from abhorrent behaviour, the Supreme Court has upheld a 14-year jail sentence of a man found guilty of sexually abusing a ...