#Supreme Court

The legal services prosecuting the high profile ‘golden passport’ case suffered a setback after the supreme court overturned key search warrants, invalidating the evidence obtained during those checks. That warrant ...

Cancer patients protested outside the Astrasol shoe-sole factory on Saturday morning following a ruling that found no causal link between the company’s operation and the cancer cases detected nearby. ...

President Nicos Anastasiades has filed a petition to the Supreme Court related to two laws concerning the reduction of VAT on fuel and electricity, following the opinion of the Attorney-general ...

Suspended sentence for public employee found guilty in bribery case A former ministry of interior engineer has avoided jail for the second time after the Supreme Court on Wednesday imposed ...

The European Commission on Wednesday urged Cyprus to continue to improve the effective investigation and adjudication of high-level corruption cases, including by strengthening the Office of the Attorney General and ...

Antonis Latsiou was confirmed on Tuesday as the new president of the supreme court at a ceremony hosted at the presidential palace by President Nicos Anasasiades. Anastasiades praised Latsiou’s ...

The supreme court has cut the penalty imposed on a woman who was ordered to pay €450 for violating the Covid mandates, with the judges ruling it be reduced to €150. The ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that recognized women’s constitutional right to abortion, a decision condemned by President Joe Biden that ...

New supreme court judge Stalo Hadjiyianni-Christodoulou was sworn in on Tuesday at a special ceremony at the Presidential Palace pledging to work to resolve long-standing problems that lead to delays ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a 2017 decision by the Famagusta criminal court which found two defendants guilty in relation to a quadruple murder committed in Ayia Napa in June 2016. ...

The Audit Office has petitioned the Supreme Court to rule on whether the government can unilaterally alter the nomenclature pertaining to state officials as these are prescribed in the constitution. ...

President Joe Biden on Friday celebrated the confirmation of his nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court during an outdoor ...

A local government overhaul will go ahead as approved by parliament last month after President Nicos Anastasiades decided not to challenge the law in the supreme court but allow it ...

The supreme court has ordered the immediate release of a third country national from police detention at Menoyia where she was being held pending her deportation, the Cyprus News Agency ...

Cyprus’ legal system was tested and failed in its handling of the 2019 Ayia Napa gang rape case concerning a British woman, the chairwoman of the House human rights committee said ...

The supreme court has ruled against a 60-year-old appealing a prison sentence imposed on him for causing the death of a young man in a traffic accident in Limassol in ...

After saying he would not veto a budget amendment that would see the dismissal of four presidential aides, President Nicos Anastasiades signalled on Thursday that the individuals in question would ...

The supreme court on Monday categorically rejected the notion that judges in Cyprus are not objective, and cited the findings of European institutions to back up its opinion. The top ...

Attorney-general Giorgos Savvides was perfectly justified in expressing his disappointment over last month’s Supreme Court decision that retaining customer data for six months by telecommunications providers was illegal. “It ...

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Diko MP Zaharias Koulias against a lower court decision to award a former minister €25,000 in damages for defamation. The case goes back ...

The Supreme Court has expressed disagreement with a government bill creating a commercial court and an admiralty court because it did not provide for them to be two distinct entities, ...

The chief of police said on Thursday that a Supreme Court decision that retention of customer data by telephone providers for six months is illegal will be thoroughly examined together ...

The Supreme Court has curtailed the ability of the police to combat crime after it decided that the retention of customer data by telephone providers for six months is illegal. ...

The Supreme Court has ruled as unconstitutional a bill approved by parliament extending a moratorium on tenant evictions due to the pandemic. The decision essentially has no bearing as the ...