Judgment

The Council of State came into conflict with the Supreme Court last January on the contentious issue & the disagreement was referred for final judgment to the Supreme Special Court

As the government mulls ways to help rebuild an economy battered by the effects of the new coronavirus pandemic, the Justice Ministry is preparing a bill that will create special court sections to prioritize hearings relating to important investments, Kathimerini has learned.

For the first time, however, the IMO observer assigned to the case - Italian judge Ferdinando Buatier de Mongeot - objected, and asked that his dissenting opinion be published alongside the Chamber's decision.

Huddled in conference, the Chamber's judges voted 6-1 against the request, according to documents obtained by BIRN via a freedom of information request.

Everyone acknowledges that the slow pace of the justice system is one of the biggest and most enduring institutional problems in the operation of the Greek state. But while everyone may acknowledge this, opposition is the only reaction we tend to hear to any drastic government proposals that would offer real solutions to what is a very real problem.

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.

On 20 and 21 June the Department for the Execution of the European Court's Judgments is organising a round table in Sofia on the Strasbourg Court's judgments against Bulgaria concerning ineffective investigations into violations of the right to life and the prohibition of torture and other forms of ill-treatment, including the need to ensure that investigations targeting a Chief Prosecutor are

Judges with the Council of Statue issued a stern warning on Tuesday after an attack by anti-establishment group Rouvikonas on its premises in downtown Athens, saying that vacuums in the institutions of democracy are filled with "raw violence reminiscent of primitive societies."

The judgment to Ratko Mladic is a difficult day for Serbia, and many citizens of our country feel hurt, given the previous decisions of the Hague Tribunal.

The Supreme Court of Britain has ruled that the government cannot trigger Article 50 and initiate the withdrawal from the European Union without consent of Parliament.

The decision, which turns down a government's appeal of the ruling of a lower-instance court, has been approved by a distinct majority of 8 to 3 votes, according to the Guardian.

The Council of State, the country's highest administrative court, is one of Greece's most important institutions. It has succeeded in maintaining its independence on many difficult occasions in our history.

Now it is being called upon to rule on the recent auction of television licenses.