Cabinet approves a school for judges as part of justice system reform
The cabinet on Wednesday approved the creation of a school for judges, which is part of the government’s bid to reform the island’s justice system....
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Supreme court to convene on foreclosures on September 24
The supreme court will convene on September 24 to deal with three pieces of legislation on foreclosures that the president vetoed. The bills in question...
Our View: Delays in justice will not be overcome until number of cases drops
A circular sent to the presidents of the different courts by President of the Supreme Court Myron Nikolatos comes as the latest initiative to tackle...
Our View: President should let Supreme Court decide on foreclosures
HAVING had the big dangers posed to the banking sector and the economy by the foreclosures bills clearly explained to them by the finance minister...
Supreme Court full bench to judge civil servants pay appeal in Sept
The supreme court will sit for the state’s appeals against the administrative court’s decisions on civil service salaries on September 30, it emerged on Tuesday....
Judges cannot sit in judgment in their own cause
By Alper Ali Riza THERE is no such beast as the law of necessity in constitutional law. What the common law and human rights law...
‘If we recuse so many judges there won’t be enough left’
Citing the rule of necessity, the supreme court on Tuesday rejected motions requesting the recusal of several of its members from adjudicating the state’s appeals...
Supreme court overturns manslaughter verdict in Limassol killings, cites premeditation
The supreme court on Wednesday accepted the attorney-general’s appeal against the initial decision of the Limassol criminal court which ruled that the killing of three...
Over half of Supreme Court judges could be excluded from state appeal
Over half the judges sitting on the full bench of the supreme court be excluded from hearing the state’s appeal against an earlier court ruling...
Dangerous Tala complex may be demolished sooner than court ruling provides
FOLLOWING a Supreme Court decision ordering the developer of an abandoned and structurally dangerous residential complex that is sliding down a hillside in Tala, to...
Top court censures AG in BoC case (Updated)
The Supreme Court on Friday censured Attorney-general Costas Clerides for abuse of process in a ruling rejecting the state’s appeal against the acquittal of two...
Supreme court full bench to judge pay cut appeals
The full bench of the supreme court will on June 10 start hearing the state’s appeals against three recent administrative court decisions that reversed civil...
Supreme court opens hearings into civil servants’ pay cuts
The supreme court on Monday held its first hearing on the appeals filed by the state against three administrative court decisions reversing civil servants’ pay...
President raises issue of EEZ with EU supreme court judges
President Nicos Anastasiades on Friday raised the issue of Turkey’s violation of international law in the Cyprus EEZ with representatives of the network of the...
Supreme Court to probe reversing civil servant pay cuts Monday
The supreme court will this coming Monday examine the appeals filed by the state against three administrative court decisions reversing civil servants’ pay cuts that...
Government looks to attorney-general over public sector pay (Update 2)
A follow-up discussion, this time with the addition of the attorney-general, will be taking place to address a recent court decision reversing wage cuts on...
State to appeal pay cut reversal ‘as soon as possible’
The state will appeal three court decisions that reversed payroll reductions imposed on civil servants as part of an austerity drive in 2012, it was...
Supreme court upholds newspaper gagging order
The supreme court on Thursday rejected an appeal by daily newspaper Politis against an injunction forbidding it from publishing the emails of a senior state...
Supreme Court ruling leaves contested House seat up in air
The supreme court on Tuesday ruled as unconstitutional a law passed by opposition parties last year in a bid to fill a disputed parliamentary seat...
Supreme court upholds acquittal of Paphos developer
The supreme court on Monday rejected a state appeal against the acquittal by the Paphos criminal court of developer Theodoros Aristodemou, his wife, and two others,...