Cyprus Law Blog

Cyprus will press ahead with a second offshore licensing round for natural gas and may have a schedule in place by the end of this year. Cyprus’s US partner, Texas-based Noble Energy, began drilling an offshore prospect a month ago bordering two significant gas discoveries made by Israel. Licensing will also be seen as a [...]

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 [...]