#Supreme Constitutional Court

The Supreme Court has annulled an order allowing police to retain CCTV footage from the Avakoum monastery, ruling on Wednesday that it was issued without legal authority and in excess ...

The Supreme Court ruling on the disappearance of two men from Strongylos could have implications for other 1974 missing persons cases where similar circumstances and evidence exist. Speaking to the Cyprus ...

The Republic failed to properly investigate the disappearance of Loizos Hadjigeorgiou and his son Giorgos after the Turkish invasion of 1974 despite opportunities to examine people allegedly involved in their abduction, ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a request by Equality (Isotita) trade unionist Giorgos Maltezos to register a private criminal indictment against five state officials over alleged violations of protections ...

The Supreme Court ruled that the detention of a 26-year-old asylum seeker from the Congo had become unlawful after approximately 15 months in custody, finding there was no realistic prospect of ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday annulled a district court order authorising the compulsory collection of biometric data from a man arrested on suspicion of arson, ruling that the lower court ...

A law passed by parliament and referred by President Nikos Christodoulides, allowing compensation to be paid to communities neighbouring the power plant in Dhekelia, has been found to contradict the ...

An application to annul a search warrant issued in the high-profile ‘Sandy’ case will be heard before the Supreme Court on Thursday at 8.30am. The request concerns a warrant executed ...

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 ...