We are delighted to announce our summer internship programme is up and running again!
We’ll be accepting three interns, for two weeks each. The slots are as follows:
We’ll start accepting applications on 1 April 2023 and stop accepting them on 30 April 2023.
Achilleas Demetriades gave a presentation to The Hellenic Centre (22 March 2022) and the Greek Cypriot Brotherhood (23 March 2022) on the “Human Rights Property Test Case for Famagusta: Where are we today?”
by Nicoletta Epaminonda
The Transparency in the Procedures to Make Public Decisions and Related Matters Law of 2022 (“Law”) was enacted on 17 February 2022 by the Plenary Session of the House of Representatives. The aim of the Law is to establish a framework for the implementation of transparency for public decision-making, in relation to issues that concern the executive or the legislative branches of government, so as to deter circumstances that may allow or facilitate acts of corruption.
by Michalis Fieros
Introduction
Over the past few years, the online environment has been evolving with tremendous speed. Internet users are at the epicentre of a continuous development and evolution. Apart from computers, all sorts of ‘smart’ devices which form part of our daily lives such as smart phones, TV sets and watches perform their various operations through their connection to the internet. Information which includes technical information, personal data and may also indicate personal preferences, is collected from such ‘smart’ devices, and shared with third parties for various purposes in processing operations which lack transparency.
A useful webinar by the EUIPO entitled “Find a Backer for your Business” was held today, on 30 November 2021. It brought together various stakeholders such as the EUIPO, Invest Europe and Butterfly Ventures.
On 3 September 2021, Achilleas Demetriades of our office gave a presentation at the 2nd International Conference EU-En4s. The research project EU-En4s focuses on the study of enforcement titles in cross-border enforcement within the EU.
The 4th Anti-Money Laundering Directive requires all member-states to maintain a register of Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBO), which will be centrally held. The said Directive has been transposed into Cyprus’ jurisdiction by Law 13(I)/2018.
On 30 August 2020, Achilleas Demetriades spoke to “Alitheia” about Famagusta. You can read the article in the attached PDF.
A short note written by Achilleas Demetriades on the website of the think tank “Kratos Dikaiou” regarding the ECtHR decision in “Application no. 74910/16, Marios ELIADES and Others against Cyprus” which dealt with delays in appeal proceedings before the CY Supreme Court. You can read the note here (in Greek): https://kratosdikaiou.com/index.php/2020/08/01/scholio-edad-kathusterhsh-sthn-ekdikash-dikaih-dikh/?fbclid=IwAR02YPmZ0tmVk-aIAjmWWDg-QV2seA_d8eZHZrnGrpPMxEKwcL46dGlpUpc