Appeals Court

The Athens Three-Member Court of Appeals rejected the appeal of Michalis Dardaneliotis’ non-profit organization, upholding the decision of the Athens Multi-Member Court of First Instance, which had ruled the will of 92-year-old R.T. as fraudulent. This ruling paves the way for the rightful heirs of the elderly woman to pursue criminal charges against those involved, seeking justice.

Artan Grubi, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Inter-Community Relations in North Macedonia, along with Appeals Court Judge Enver Bexheti, has been added to the US State Department's "blacklist" due to significant corruption. The sanctions, which also affect their families, include a ban on entering the United States.

While the Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Court has since late last October forwarded to Parliament the file on the case of the five “ghost” naval cooperation aircraft Navy’s P-3B Orion and the $500 million scandal over the awarding of their upgrade to Lockheed, under SYRIZA-ANEL, the Financial Prosecutor’s Office has already launched a preliminary investigation.

The Karla storm barrier, because of which water and in recent weeks tons of fish have been flowing into the Pagasitikos Gulf, could not be closed, according to a multi-page conclusion of the Volos Prosecutor’s Office, which had ordered and completed a preliminary investigation as early as last February.

With the risk of the statute of limitations for any responsibility linked to the deadly fire in 2018 in Mati in East Attica being real and imminent, the justice system is expediting judicial procedures so that those who were brought to trial for the tragedy do not go completely unpunished. 

The London High Court rejected a petition to suspend British arms exports to Israel, the lawyers for the plaintiffs said on Tuesday.

A coalition of legal advocacy groups had asked the High Court in January to expedite a judicial review of the U.K. government's decision to keep selling military parts and arms to Israel.

The gap in the security of the courthouse in Thessaloniki where a parcel bomb sent to a senior judge was found and defused on Monday was "quite serious," Justice Minister Giorgos Floridis said on Tuesday.

Montenegrin investigative journalist Jovo Martinovic (left) arriving at court in Podgorica. Photo: BIRN/Samir Kajosevic

The Appeals Court delivered its verdict after the Montenegrin Supreme Court last June ordered a second retrial for Martinovic.

They accuse him of using a Facebook account to issue a series of posts promoting the Islamic State and its late leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and calling for a holy war in the Middle East and Africa.

El Salih was released on June 11 after an Appeals Court rejected a prosecution request to keep him in custody until trial.

In December last year, Albania's High Court overturned a decision by the country's Appeals Court which, five years earlier, had freed a notorious underworld figure called Lulzim Berisha.