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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 10-01-19
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[01] BRITISH COURT - PROPERTY CASE - RULING
[01] BRITISH COURT - PROPERTY CASE - RULING
The Court of Appeal ruled on Tuesday that a decision by a Cypriot
court, in connection with claims relating to Greek Cypriot owned
property in Cyprus northern Turkish occupied areas, must be executed.
The British Court judgment was issued in the case of Apostolides v
Orams, in which Greek Cypriot Meletis Apostolides took the Orams couple
to court, claiming his property rights over his property in the
occupied areas where the Orams had built, illegally, a holiday home.
The Cypriot court had ordered the Orams to pay compensation to
Apostolides, demolish the holiday home they had built in his property
in the Turkish occupied village of Lapithos, halt all intervention on
the said property and deliver it to its legal owner. The British Court
of Appeal said this ruling must be executed.
Apostolides, in an initial reaction, said he was pleased, adding that
todays ruling was a vindication of the institutions and the values of
the European Union. He also noted that the judgment relates to all the
aspects of the property issue, one of the main parameters of the
question of Cyprus, which has been divided since the 1974 Turkish
invasion.
Apostolides lawyer, Constantinos Kantounas, said the Court of Appeal
ruling was final and there is no right to appeal against it.
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