Supreme court

It is not possible legally and with reason to consider a trial at the Supreme Council to be part of a coup.

The Supreme Court and Council of State provided Parliament Speaker Vangelis Meimarakis on Friday with a list from which the names of the judges that will preside over the special court for ex-Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou (photo) will be drawn.

As Turkey’s public policies regarding cemevis, Alevi places of worship, have been labeled as discriminatory by the top European court on human rights, a Turkish court has made a landmark decision, stating that the determination on whether cemevis are places of worship or not cannot be made by the judiciary.

It used to do it. The Constitutional Court most recently seized the presidential vote in Parliament in 2007, ruling that the quorum was 367, contrary to what had been assumed up to that day.

The reason for this ruling was that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) group in Parliament alone would not have been enough to elect Abdullah Gül.

The Supreme Court decided Friday that 14 people should stand trial for the notorious property swap between the Vatopedi Monastery and the state six years ago.

Those who will face charges of breach of trust and making false declarations include the monastery’s abbot, Ephraim (photo), a monk, Arsenios, and the wife of former Public Order Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis, Katerina Peleki.

Because various laws that are interfering with justice have come one after the other in a nonstop fashion, I call them jigsaw puzzles.

The head of the Supreme Court of Appeals has criticized planned changes at the body, which introduce new departments and adjust the appointment system for judges and prosecutors, describing the plans as an “open government intervention” in the judiciary.

BELGRADE - Around 120,000 trials have been postponed in the two months since the start of the lawyer strike in Serbia, President of the Supreme Court and High Judicial Council Dragomir Milojevic has told the daily Politika.

The precise number of the postponed trials is not known because not all courts have kept records on this, he noted.

The Supreme Court has decided that four men who stood trial earlier this year for shooting 28 migrant workers at a strawberry farm in Nea Manolada in the Peloponnese should not be retried.

The National Integrity Agency (ANI) has asked the Supreme Court of Justice and Cassation (ICCJ) for earlier consideration of the incompatibility case regarding national leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL) and presidential candidate Klaus Iohannis.