Parliament to discuss outdated 1929 Criminal Code overhaul

Cyprus’s Criminal Code, which dates from 1929, still cross-refers to ‘the Indies’ and makes it an offence for a horse carried in a cart to stick out by a few centimetres, parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee heard on Wednesday, as lawyers and parliament members called for a radical overhaul. Ilias Stefanou, a criminal lawyer representing the … Continue reading Parliament to discuss outdated 1929 Criminal Code overhaul