Supreme Court

President Abdullah Gül is set to begin a tour of state institutions to bid farewell, as his mandate will expire Aug. 28.

Uganda's constitutional court on Aug. 1 overturned tough new anti-gay laws that had been branded draconian by rights groups, saying they  had been wrongly passed by parliament.

The law is "null and void," the presiding judge told the court, saying the process had contravened the constitution, as it has been passed in parliament in December without the necessary quorum of lawmakers.

Before talking about the new regulations about Turkey’s Telecommunication Authority (TİB), which are on the government’s agenda, let me mention different cases of abuses that we have witnessed as a society since the TİB was established in 2005.

The Supreme Court is to review the decision by judges in Patra to acquit two of the four men charged over the shooting of 28 migrant workers at a strawberry farm in Nea Manolada last year.

Deputy Supreme Court Prosecutor Giorgos Koliocostas resigned yesterday citing personal reasons.

Koliocostas was due to reach retirement in June 2015. He had served at the Supreme Court since 2009 and had joined the judiciary in 1978.

Members of the armed forces and emergency services look set to take legal action to have their wages restored to pre-2012 levels after the government suggested it would not raise their pay to the same standard.

Former Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou should stand trial for allegedly tampering with the Lagarde list of depositors, Supreme Court deputy prosecutor Vassilis Pliotas recommended to the judicial council that will decide the politician’s fate.

The trial into the murder of Abdullah Cömert, who died during last year’s Gezi protests in the southern city of Antakya, has been relocated to the Aegean city of Balıkesir, some 1,300 kilometers away, due to “security” concerns.

The Supreme Judicial Council (VSS) opened Thursday a procedure for the election of a Chair of the Supreme Court of Cassation (VKS).

The name of only one candidate is certain so far, namely judge Pavlina Panova, according to reports of mediapool.bg.

Panova is Deputy Chair of VKS and Chair of the Criminal Section of VKS.

Appeal against detention of Ivanović rejected

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- The Court of Appeals in Priština has rejected an appeal filed against a decision to keep Oliver Ivanović in prison, his party, GI SDP, announced on Thursday.