Cyprus Law Blog

Earlier today in the UK, the Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Claimant, Meletis Apostolides, in the pivotal case Apostolides v Orams.  The Judgment provides for a Judgment of the District Court of Nicosia, Cyprus, to be registered and enforced in the UK. The latter judgment concerns the the Orams couple, which had illegally purchased land [...]

In an Opinion commissioned by the Republic of Cyprus and signed by Professors Amerasinghe, Dugard, Pellet, Schabas, Tomuschat and Sir Ian Brownlie,  the international jurists have concurred that the well-established rule of customary international law that in case of injury to an alien, local remedies must be exhausted before international proceedings may be instituted, is not applicable [...]