Posts tagged with "Supreme Court"

AG’s brother spins web of alleged judicial duplicity Cyprus

AG’s brother spins web of alleged judicial duplicity

January 12th, 20193249 Nicos Clerides, brother of the attorney-general, has written a letter to the Bar Association making some astonishing claims regarding the connections between a prominent law firm and the Supreme Court among others. Clerides, a lawyer himself, wrote the lengthy and detailed letter concerning the Chrysafinis and Polyviou law office...
Man who shot dead his son, 19, has prison sentence raised Crime

Man who shot dead his son, 19, has prison sentence raised

January 11th, 20193617 The supreme court on Friday raised the prison sentence of a man who killed his son from 10 to 15 years, finding it was inadequate under the circumstances. Timoleon Themistocleous, 73, was sentenced to 10 years in jail for shooting dead his 19-year-old son Odysseas with a hunting shotgun during a heated argument over the use of a car...
AG’s brother summoned by Bar to substantiate supreme court slur Cyprus

AG’s brother summoned by Bar to substantiate supreme court slur

January 8th, 20191680 The brother of the attorney-general has been summoned by the Bar Association to substantiate his allegations that the supreme court has been captured by a prominent law firm. Nicos Clerides, an attorney himself, must now appear before the body and explain his remarks. Should the Bar Association deem his explanation unsatisfactory, he...
US Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg fractures three ribs in fall Americas

US Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg fractures three ribs in fall

November 8th, 2018955 US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized on Thursday after she fell in her office at the court the night before, fracturing three ribs, a court spokeswoman said. The 85-year-old justice initially went home after the fall, but experienced discomfort overnight. She went to George Washington University Hospital on...
Attorney-general defends his role in police probe into judge Cyprus

Attorney-general defends his role in police probe into judge

October 8th, 20181702 Attorney-general Costas Clerides on Monday released a statement seeking to set the record straight regarding his ordering a police probe into a district court judge. The matter concerns a judge who is under investigation for allegedly tampering with court transcripts. The complaint against the judge was filed to police by one of...
Justice Kavanaugh tainted by bruising battle -Democratic senator World

Justice Kavanaugh tainted by bruising battle -Democratic senator

October 7th, 20181298 By Lawrence Hurley A senior adviser to President Donald Trump on Sunday said new U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will move past his bruising confirmation battle and apply the law fairly, while a Democratic senator said he is tainted by the experience. Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, said on ABC's "This...
Top court says it already cleared judge now under new investigation Cyprus

Top court says it already cleared judge now under new investigation

October 5th, 20181532 By George Psyllides A district court judge who is the subject of a police probe for allegedly tampering with court transcripts had been investigated and cleared by the supreme court, the island’s top court said on Friday. The announcement followed reports the previous day that the attorney-general had instructed the police to...
McConnell says U.S. senators will get FBI report on Kavanaugh World

McConnell says U.S. senators will get FBI report on Kavanaugh

October 2nd, 20181047 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that each U.S. senator would get a copy of the FBI report on sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. McConnell repeated that he expected a vote this week in the full Senate on President Donald Trump's nominee, a conservative federal appeals...
Over Democratic objections, Senate panel sets Kavanaugh vote (Update) Americas

Over Democratic objections, Senate panel sets Kavanaugh vote (Update)

September 28th, 20181378 Angry Democrats walked out as the Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee set a vote over their objections for later on Friday on the nomination of President Trump's US Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh after a key senator, Jeff Flake, threw his support behind the judge. Republicans appeared to have the votes to...
CySEC disagrees with supreme court over Eliades, BoC decision Cyprus

CySEC disagrees with supreme court over Eliades, BoC decision

September 13th, 20181937 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, 20183558 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, 20181643 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, 2018893 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, 20181357 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, 20181385 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, 20182431 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, 20181376 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, 20183293 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, 20181635 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, 20181707 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, 20183563 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, 20183817 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, 20182908 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, 20181389 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,...
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