The owners of unlicensed communal swimming pools are facing court action following inspections carried out by the Paphos Municipality who insist that pools must be licenced, inspected daily and a lifeguard appointed.
In a ruling that could have implications for the Cyprus banks, a Slovenian court has annulled a Swiss Franc loan used to acquire property because the bank failed to advise the customer of the risks.
The Peyia council is taking the Nicosia town planning department to court over its decision to issue a planning permit for a mammoth development on a hillside (Ayia Vouni) overlooking Peyia.
The Limassol District Court has upheld the 'trapped buyers' law overturning previous district court rulings in favour of banks that blocked Title Deeds being issued to some 70,000 trapped buyers.
The Cyprus government has vowed to continue issuing Title Deeds to trapped buyers despite the recent court rulings that left them in legal limbo according to a report in the Cyprus Weekly.
In efforts to modernise the Cyprus justice system, a new Commercial court will be set up in early 2018 to deal with claims arising from contracts, company disputes, the purchase or sale of goods, etc.
The first Cypriot (interim) judgement has been awarded by the Nicosia District Court in a case that affects many bona fide borrowers who bought property with a loan denominated in Swiss Francs.
The Larnaca District Court has banned banks from foreclosing on properties used as collateral for loans for which courts gave the go ahead before the new foreclosure law came in effect last year.
The court will issue its judgement in the case against Theodoros Aristodemou, the founder of Aristo developers and former chairman of the Bank of Cyprus, and three others on July 28.
The Paphos criminal court has ruled that there is a case against Theodoros Aristodemou, the head of Aristo Developers Limited, and three others relating to the illegal division land at Skali.
Savvas Vergas, the Paphos mayor, is scheduled to appear before the Paphos District Court today in connection with threatening SMS messages sent to a number of people involved in the Aristo case.
The boss of Aristo Developers, Theodoros Aristodemou, and three of the other four suspects in the alleged Skali land scam were released under terms on Tuesday until their trial on 30 October.
The Paphos District Court renewed the detention order against four of the suspects in the Aristo Developer's fraud case yesterday after the trial judge accepted a request from the police.
The Paphos District Court is expected to rule today whether Theodoros Aristodemou and three others, including his wife Sotiroulla, should be remanded in Police custody for eight days.
The court hearing to remand Theodoros Aristodimou, the founder and managing director of Aristo Developers had to be adjourned following his admittance to hospital with high blood pressure.
As banks are taking defaulting borrowers to court rather than exhausting options under the Cyprus Central Bank's directive on loan restructuring, distressed borrowers are threatening to freeze loan payments.
The Famagusta Land Registry office may find itself in contempt of court after refusing to implement a court order for Specific Performance instructing it to transfer a property to its rightful owners.
A lawyer, who was believed to have fled Cyprus with his wife in 2006 allegedly taking with him client funds estimated to be more than three million Cyprus Pounds, has appeared in court.
The most read article published in Cyprus Property News over the past twelve months was that a group of British buyers had won the right to have their cases against their Paphos-based developer heard in the UK.
The judgement in the jurisdiction case brought by Brits who purchased property in Cyprus against their Cypriot developer and British agent, was handed down in the High Court on Monday.
