Law

On January 16, the Grand Chamber is to hear the case Vallianatos and Others vs. Greece. The applicants are six Greek nationals who live in Athens, some of whom live together as couples, while others are in a relationship...

South Korean back packer Hyun Young Jung, who had been traveling through Europe for more than a year before reaching Greece, has claimed he was assaulted by police, then handcuffed and taken to a police station where he was again...

With many Greeks unable to pay their debts because of an avalanche of pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions, the number of loans in default has hit nearly 25 percent but banks continue to press consumers to pay...

With racist attacks in Greece rapidly rising, police said they arrested two men and charged them with assaulting three Bangladeshi migrants in separate incidents. Police said the two 22-year-olds were riding in a car in Athens' southern suburbs and accosted...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled today that the failure of Greek authorities to integrate Roma children into the ordinary education system amounted to discrimination against them. The applicants of the case Sampani and Others v. Greece were...

The General Court of the European Union has ruled the European Central Bank (ECB) properly refused to release documents about Greece’s deteriorating economy in 2010 because “Disclosure of those documents would have undermined the protection of the public interest...

In the first decision of its kind in Australia, a judge has allowed the 2001 will of a John Matsis, 90, who has severe dementia to be changed for tax and asset protection. Matsis is in a nursing home for...

In a case calling into question again the security of data in Greece, a 35-year-old man has been arrested and charged on suspicion of stealing 9 million personal data files. Police did not reveal his name but said he was...

Investigative journalist Costas Vaxevanis, who was acquitted of violation of privacy laws after publishing the names of 2,059 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret accounts in a Swiss bank he said hadn’t been checked for possible tax evasion, is...

The public prosecutor’s office in Athens has charged the organizers, producers and cast of the play Corpus Christi with blasphemy following a lawsuit filed by Bishop Seraphim of Piraeus. Directed by Albanian-born Laertis Vasiliou, Terrence McNally’s play had been staged...