Supreme Court

The High Court of Cassation and Justice will weigh on Thursday the appeal filed by former head of the Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) Alina Bica to her being held in preventive detention.

Independent Greeks MP Stavroula Xoulidou is to appear before a Supreme Court prosecutor on Thursday to answer questions regarding claims that she was offered a bribe to back the government's presidential candidate.

Because various laws that are interfering with justice have come one after the other in a nonstop fashion, I call them jigsaw puzzles.

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has denied claims that a secretariat will be established in İmralı Island prison for the ongoing negotiations with Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), speaking late on Nov. 25.

A professor at the University of Macedonia in northern Greece has been suspended following his conviction for seeking under-the-table-payments from students who wanted to pass his class.

The academic, also known as “the grosser” among his colleagues, had set a price tag ranging from 250 euros for a 6, 300 euros for an 8 and 400 euros for a top mark (10).

The head of the Supreme Court of Appeals has criticized planned changes at the body, which introduce new departments and adjust the appointment system for judges and prosecutors, describing the plans as an “open government intervention” in the judiciary.

Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Kuneva has warned the country should prepare for tough conclusions in the EU Commission's forthcoming report on justice and internal affairs.

Bromak, the major shareholder at Corporate Commercial Bank (KTB), is to request an international report on whether the bank's capital is a negative equity, the company's lawyers said on Monday.

Comments from Menko Menkov and Tervel Georgiev followed a decision of the Sofia City Court to halt the insolvency proceedings started by the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB).

A 43-year-old man who had appeared in court four times in connection the brutal murder of a medical student in 1997 was cleared by the Supreme Court on Thursday.

The student, Evi Gatidou, was stabbed 104 times in her apartment in Larissa, central Greece, but nobody stood trial for her murder until 2005, when the 43-year-old was convicted.

Sixteen members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are currently imprisoned in Turkey and three of them are being tried in connection to a deadly March 20 attack in the Central Anatolian province of Niğde, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has stated.