Cyprus: International Courts & Tribunals

The General Court of the European Union has upheld the legality of the EU Council's restrictive measures prohibiting the provision of legal advisory services to the Russian Government and Russian-based entities...

Please set out the various regimes applicable to recognising and enforcing judgments in your jurisdiction and the names of the countries to which such special regimes apply.

The operation of recognition, registration and enforcement of arbitral awards in Cyprus is governed by a framework of three distinct yet complimentary pieces of legislation that comprehensively cover this field, set out below.

In Cyprus the legal regime governing arbitration is dualistic...

The Supreme Court of Cyprus decided that a holder of an International Arbitral Award not yet registered under the New York Convention cannot be regarded as a "Creditor".

The International Commercial Arbitration Law of Cyprus regulates matters of international commercial arbitration in accordance with the Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration drafted by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), following the example of many other, mostly European, countries.