By Georgia Linardou. With illegal interest exceeding 100% annually, and violence no longer stopping at threats, usury in Greece has moved from economic crime into organized crime.
Criminal Law
By Georgia Linardou. With illegal interest exceeding 100% annually, and violence no longer stopping at threats, usury in Greece has moved from…
Criminal Law
By the recent order no. 1891/2011 of the Athens Council of Misdemeanors, the application of a young remand prisoner, mother of an infant boy born in…
Criminal Law
Decision 1480/2010 of the Five-Member Court of Appeal of Athens convicted a foreign minor as an adult and imposed a prison sentence of four years…
Administrative Law
After approximately nine years, the Athens Administrative Court of First Instance, by its final decision no. 1881/2011, partially upheld the action…
Administrative Law
The article criticizes the insistence of taxi owners on mobilizations that, in the author's view, undermined the rule of law, institutions, and…
Constitutional Law
Democracy rests on institutions, direct election by the people, separation of powers, decentralization and control of authority.
Criminal Law
A chronicle, because preparation began several days before it took place. Pre-announced, because the competent people had been informed in good time.
Administrative Law
By decision no. A 1286/2011, the Single-Member Administrative Court of First Instance of Piraeus annulled a tax-office certification act based on a…
Family Law
The family is an institution protected both by the Constitution and by Article 9 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which…
Tax Law
Zacharias, born in 1969, unmarried, unemployed and without property, once kept a shop for two years and incurred a tax debt far beyond his income.
Employment Law
We often take it for granted that, in a democratic society, the right to strike is self-evident. Let us see, however, how matters stand in Sweden, a…
Criminal Law
An archival legal commentary on Article 348A of the Greek Criminal Code, child pornography and the careful criminal protection of minors.