Court of Appeal

The Sofia Court of Appeal released businessman Vasil Bozhkov under house arrest. The implementation of the measure will be monitored with an electronic bracelet.

The decision is final.

Vasil Bozhkov entered the courtroom to loud applause from supporters this morning, where a three-member panel of the Sofia Court of Appeal was deciding whether to leave him in custody.

A well-known drummer who had previously played with popular Greek bands was found guilty by the Athens Mixed Jury Court in one of four cases of sexual abuse of underage girls filed against him.

The court handed him a four-year suspended sentenced, acknowledging two mitigating factors, as requested by his defense, of previous lawful life and good behavior following the offense.

He is charged with committing several offenses of rape for an extended period of time, as well as several offenses of illegal sexual activity.

Multiple members of Greece's judiciary have tested positive for Covid-19 in recent days, Kathimerini has learned. This includes several prominent jurists as well as an unknown number of positive cases that were diagnosed at the Athens Court of First Instance.

The full bench for resolving legal matters with the High Court of Cassation and Justice (Supreme Court, ed. n.) decided that it is a crime for a person to open and use an account on a social network in the name of another person, where information, photos and video images are posted without the latter's consent.

The U.K. Court of Appeal - the highest court within the Senior Courts of England and Wales - has granted the Alliance of Turkish Businesspeople (AOTB) permission to appeal a High Court judgment on immigration rules that have made it harder for thousands of Turks to stay in the country.

Court of Appeals President İsmail Rüştü Cirit has dismissed a country report by the European Union criticizing Turkey's judicial practices as a "worthless piece of paper."

A court of appeal in Greece's border city of Orestiada on Jan. 8 decided to acquit a Turkish worker who unintentionally crossed the border with an excavator in May 2018.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has again claimed that the Constitutional Court overstepped its jurisdiction by ruling in favor of the release of daily Cumhuriyet editor-in-chief Can Dündar and Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gül, speaking after the court released its justification for the ruling.

Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals has approved the two aggravated life sentences handed down to a Turkish man who killed his Irish girlfriend's mother and one of her friends in 2011.