Posts tagged with "Supreme Court"

CySEC disagrees with supreme court over Eliades, BoC decision Cyprus

CySEC disagrees with supreme court over Eliades, BoC decision

September 13th, 2018 After the attorney-general, the island’s securities and exchange commission (CySEC) also expressed its disagreement over a Supreme Court decision that acquitted a top banker on appeal, after he was jailed for two and half years for market manipulation. The supreme court on Wednesday acquitted former Bank of Cyprus CEO Andreas...
Refugees seek European justice after losing compensation claim Cyprus

Refugees seek European justice after losing compensation claim

July 5th, 2018 A refugee couple who sued the state for compensation but lost, vowed on Wednesday to take their case all the way to the European Court of Human Rights. Thomas and Eleni Kaoullas, refugees from Famagusta, had filed an action before a district court seeking indemnities for loss of income due to the 1974 invasion and subsequent, ongoing...
Hearing into legal headache of empty House seat set for November Cyprus

Hearing into legal headache of empty House seat set for November

July 2nd, 2018 The supreme court on Monday set November 26 as the date for hearing final arguments for and against legislation passed by parliament on June 13 regarding the procedure to be followed when a parliamentary seat is vacated. Lawyers representing the litigants – the parliament and the state – asked for more time, but the court said the...
In Supreme Court pick, Trump can push conservative social agenda Americas

In Supreme Court pick, Trump can push conservative social agenda

June 28th, 2018 With a second Supreme Court pick less than 18 months into his presidency, Donald Trump is poised to cement conservative control of the court and fire up supporters eager for a rightward shift on divisive social issues. Shortly after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement on Wednesday, White House officials said Trump had...
President refers bill on vacant seat to supreme court Cyprus

President refers bill on vacant seat to supreme court

June 15th, 2018 Following the advice of the attorney-general, President Nicos Anastasiades has decided to refer a controversial bill concerning a vacant seat in parliament to the supreme court, the government spokesman said on Friday. The decision is the latest twist in a legal saga that started after the May 2016 parliamentary...
Paternity leave bill poised for supreme court scrutiny Cyprus

Paternity leave bill poised for supreme court scrutiny

June 13th, 2018 The House plenum voted on Wednesday against President Nicos Anstasiades’ referral back to parliament of a bill to grant paternity leave and benefits to unmarried couples. Twenty-nine MPs voted against the bill, while 15 voted in favour and one MP abstained. The bill – tabled by main opposition Akel – had passed by majority,...
Top court bans publication of judgments over GDPR Cyprus

Top court bans publication of judgments over GDPR

June 7th, 2018 The Supreme Court has decided that court decisions will not be made public until a legal framework is established in relation to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or if it decides otherwise. Court judgments stopped being published in Cyprus since May 25, the date on which the GDPR came into force. The Supreme...
Supreme Court rules politicians must tolerate criticism Cyprus

Supreme Court rules politicians must tolerate criticism

June 5th, 2018 The Supreme Court has overturned a decision against a journalist in a libel suit filed against him by a former state official, pointing out that a public figure must be more tolerant of criticism whose boundaries are broader when the object is a politician. The case in question was brought to court by former government spokesman...
Suspended sentence for possessing child pornography Crime

Suspended sentence for possessing child pornography

May 30th, 2018 A 28-year-old man from Nicosia was sentenced on Wednesday to a suspended three-year sentence after being found guilty of possessing child pornography. The man was arrested after 4,576 photos and three videos with child pornographic material was found in his possession. The court said that such offences are on the rise and it has...
Parties fail to agree over MP seat conundrum Cyprus

Parties fail to agree over MP seat conundrum

May 14th, 2018 There is still no direction on what should be done with the parliamentary seat vacated by former Solidarity MP Giorgos Papadopoulos, it emerged on Monday after a meeting between parliamentary party representatives and the attorney general yielded no results. The debate is whether the constitution should be amended or whether a...
Constitutional amendment best way to resolve parliamentary seat dispute, AG says Cyprus

Constitutional amendment best way to resolve parliamentary seat dispute, AG says

May 10th, 2018 Under the circumstances, the safest legal path to resolve the matter of a disputed parliamentary seat in Limassol that has been dragging on since the poll in 2016 is a constitutional amendment, Attorney-general Costas Clerides said on Thursday. On April 30, the Supreme Court annulled the entry into parliament of Solidarity MP Giorgos...
Supreme court rules Solidarity MP should lose his seat Cyprus

Supreme court rules Solidarity MP should lose his seat

April 30th, 2018 The supreme court on Monday annulled the election of Solidarity MP Giorgos Papadopoulos to parliament, after he had essentially inherited his seat from party leader Eleni Theocharous. Speaking after court, he said the decision was respected and he would liaise with other parties and his legal advisors on how to proceed. “From...
Supreme court throws out AG’s appeal in Bank of Cyprus case Cyprus

Supreme court throws out AG’s appeal in Bank of Cyprus case

April 3rd, 2018 The supreme court on Tuesday threw out an appeal filed by the attorney-general against the same court’s prior decision of December 6 last year concerning the second criminal case brought against Bank of Cyprus. In its ruling, the top court said the attorney-general’s appeal was “devoid of purpose” and as such was being...
Supreme Court hikes sentence for child-porn offender Cyprus

Supreme Court hikes sentence for child-porn offender

March 29th, 2018 The Supreme Court on Thursday announced that it had raised the sentence of a man found guilty by the Limassol Criminal Court last year of the possession of child pornography. In a statement, the Supreme Court said that, following an appeal by the Attorney-general (AG), it has raised a three-year prison sentence to five years. The...
Spain's top court to try 13 Catalan leaders for rebellion Europe

Spain's top court to try 13 Catalan leaders for rebellion

March 23rd, 2018 A Spanish Supreme Court judge on Friday said he would try 13 Catalan leaders for rebellion, a crime punishable by up to 25 years in jail, over their role in Catalonia's banned independence drive last year. In total, 25 separatist politicians will be tried for rebellion, embezzlement or disobedience, the judge said in a court ruling,...
Former deputy attorney-general loses speeding fine appeal Cyprus

Former deputy attorney-general loses speeding fine appeal

March 19th, 2018 Loucis Loucaides, a former judge of the European Court of Human Rights and a former deputy attorney-general, has lost an appeal he filed with the supreme court by which he was contesting a speeding fine. Loucaides was caught speeding on November 22, 2016 on Grivas Digenis Avenue in Nicosia. He clocked 83km/h, when the speed limit was...
US Supreme Court takes up new immigration detention dispute Americas

US Supreme Court takes up new immigration detention dispute

March 19th, 2018 The US Supreme Court on Monday took up a new dispute over the detention of immigrants in a case involving whether people who were convicted of criminal offenses and were subject to deportation can go free in certain instances after serving their prison terms. The justices will hear an appeal by President Donald Trump's administration...
Man imprisoned for three months for stabbing and killing dog Cyprus

Man imprisoned for three months for stabbing and killing dog

March 13th, 2018 The Supreme Court on Tuesday sentenced a 72-year-old man to three months in prison after he was found guilty of fatally stabbing dog Max in 2015. Giorgos Constantinou had been sentenced last May to a 45-day prison sentence with a three-year suspension and was ordered to pay €150 in court fees, but the Animal Party, feeling the...
US top court forbids seizure of ancient Persian artefacts Americas

US top court forbids seizure of ancient Persian artefacts

February 21st, 2018 The US supreme court on Wednesday ruled that Americans injured in a 1997 suicide bombing in Jerusalem cannot seize ancient Persian artefacts from a Chicago museum to satisfy a $71.5 million court judgement against Iran, which they had accused of complicity in the attack. The justices, in an 8-0 ruling, upheld a lower court's decision...
Supreme court upholds law scrapping privatisation unit Cyprus

Supreme court upholds law scrapping privatisation unit

February 5th, 2018 With a six to five majority vote, the supreme court on Monday upheld a law passed by parliament last July scrapping the finance ministry’s privatisation unit. The law was referred to the court by President Nicos Anastasiades who argued it was in violation of the separation of powers and also interfered with the cabinet’s right to...
Supreme court undermines face-saving response to Enosis vote Cyprus

Supreme court undermines face-saving response to Enosis vote

February 5th, 2018 The supreme court upheld on Monday the state’s argument that a provision in a law passed by parliament last April mandating the education ministry to consult with the House education committee over bank holidays and commemorations was unconstitutional because it violated the separation of powers. On the face of it, the law gave the...
Supreme Court upholds decision to free paedophile Cyprus

Supreme Court upholds decision to free paedophile

January 25th, 2018 The Supreme Court has upheld a decision to suspend the two-and-a-half-year jail term given to a 32-year-old paedophile, also rejecting an appeal against the sentence itself. The three-panel court decided by two votes to one to reject the state’s appeals against the suspension and the the sentence, which was considered...
Supreme court throws out BoC market manipulation charge Cyprus

Supreme court throws out BoC market manipulation charge

December 6th, 2017 The supreme court on Wednesday said market manipulation cannot stand as a charge for four defendants in a case against Bank of Cyprus (BoC) relating to its alleged mismanagement in the run up to Cyprus’ financial collapse, thereby annulling an earlier Nicosia criminal court decision The case concerns the acquisition of Greek...
Lawyer in supreme court appeal over corruption sentence Cyprus

Lawyer in supreme court appeal over corruption sentence

October 18th, 2017 A prominent lawyer doing time for corruption had nothing to do with the case that led to his prosecution and the court had failed to adequately weigh the conditions in which each one of the offences had been committed, the supreme court heard on Wednesday. Arguing on behalf of Panayiotis Neocleous, defence lawyer Alecos Markides...
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