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From Cyprus Mail ....


Talat meeting Orams lawyers today in London
By Simon Bahceli
TURKISH CYPRIOT leader Mehmet Ali Talat will meet for consultations in London today with the lawyers of a British couple facing possible eviction from a Greek Cypriot property in northern Cyprus, it was revealed yesterday.

The meeting comes ahead of a hearing at the Appeals Court in London where a British judge is expected to adhere to a European Court of Justice (ECJ) directive to uphold an earlier Nicosia court ruling that Linda and David Orams, the British couple at the centre of the now-famous Orams case, demolish the house they built on land in Lapithos owned by Greek Cypriot refugee Melitis Apostolides.

If the British Appeals Court rules against the Orams, the couple will also be forced to pay compensation to Apostolides and court costs that are estimated to have reached several million euros.

“The aim of the meeting is for the president to express the importance of the case to the Orams’ lawyers,” Talat’s spokesman Hasan Ercakica told the Cyprus Mail yesterday.

“He also wants to listen to what the lawyers have to say,” he added.

The potentially pivotal case began almost five years ago in the District Court in Nicosia, and it has been the Orams’ refusal to accept that court’s ruling that has led to legal proceedings being shifted from Cyprus to the High Court in London, and then to the ECJ in Luxemburg. In fact, it was the ECJ that delivered a major blow to the Orams last April when it presented its view that rulings issued by Greek Cypriot courts be upheld by other European states. In the case of Linda and David Orams, it means that Nicosia can call on British judges to prosecute on its behalf because the couple has been deemed to have broken Cypriot law, albeit in the northern part of Cyprus where Greek Cypriot courts have no jurisdiction.

It is even hoped by Apostolides’ lawyers that further refusal to return the land and compensate the Greek Cypriot refugee will result in the British court seizing the couple’s property in the UK as a way of partially covering the costs.

With thousands of EU citizens, the over-riding majority of whom are British, living in villas built on abandoned Greek Cypriot lands, the importance of the case for the north cannot be underestimated. The once-lucrative property market in the north has since collapsed, largely as a result of this and other high-profile legal cases. Talat was said to have been incensed by the ECJ ruling, which he said threatened to undermine ongoing negotiations aimed at ending the decade-old division of the island. This sentiment was repeated by spokesman Ercakica yesterday who expressed the Turkish Cypriot side’s view that property disputes should to be seen a political issue rather than a legal one. If the upcoming case at the Appeals Court in London went against the Orams, he said, “it will strengthen the idea that property disputes can be solved in the courts, and weaken efforts to solve them through political negotiations”.

Despite the gravity of the case, Ercakica insisted Talat would not be issuing instructions to the Orams’ lawyers.

“We already see eye-to-eye with the lawyers, and Talat’s lawyers and the Orams’ lawyers already confer, so giving instructions is not the issue,” he said.

He added that “the fact that we offer our advice to the Orams’ lawyers is not something we try to hide”.


Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2009

[zan]

Are you asking for the other thieving scumbags to be invited as well....Would the thieving scumbag "RoC" want to come....Did you ask them???

[Oracle]

He added that “the fact that we offer our advice to the Orams’ lawyers is not something we try to hide”.

Is he offering advice or bribes to those money-hungry vultures? Talat's attempts to politicize this case are transparent and he should be held in contempt ... or something nastier!

[zan]

He added that “the fact that we offer our advice to the Orams’ lawyers is not something we try to hide”.

Is he offering advice or bribes to those money-hungry vultures? Talat's attempts to politicize this case are transparent and he should be held in contempt ... or something nastier!

Bribe the Orams lawyers

[Oracle]

He added that “the fact that we offer our advice to the Orams’ lawyers is not something we try to hide”.

Is he offering advice or bribes to those money-hungry vultures? Talat's attempts to politicize this case are transparent and he should be held in contempt ... or something nastier!

Bribe the Orams lawyers

Yes .... they know how to cheat! But I know why you seem surprised as it should be an open and shut case and "thieving scumbags" is most appropriate.

[zan]

He added that “the fact that we offer our advice to the Orams’ lawyers is not something we try to hide”.

Is he offering advice or bribes to those money-hungry vultures? Talat's attempts to politicize this case are transparent and he should be held in contempt ... or something nastier!

Bribe the Orams lawyers

Yes .... they know how to cheat!

Have you got anything you can check your blood sugar level with???

[Oracle]

He added that “the fact that we offer our advice to the Orams’ lawyers is not something we try to hide”.

Is he offering advice or bribes to those money-hungry vultures? Talat's attempts to politicize this case are transparent and he should be held in contempt ... or something nastier!

Bribe the Orams lawyers

Yes .... they know how to cheat!

Have you got anything you can check your blood sugar level with???

Yes, there's a Kit-Kat staring at me saying "eat me, eat me" .... so I guess I should oblige!

[zan]

He added that “the fact that we offer our advice to the Orams’ lawyers is not something we try to hide”.

Is he offering advice or bribes to those money-hungry vultures? Talat's attempts to politicize this case are transparent and he should be held in contempt ... or something nastier!

Bribe the Orams lawyers

Yes .... they know how to cheat!

Have you got anything you can check your blood sugar level with???

Yes, there's a Kit-Kat staring at me saying "eat me, eat me" .... so I guess I should oblige!

I would..Give it half an hour and then come back!!!

[Expatkiwi]

Yes .... they know how to cheat! But I know why you seem surprised as it should be an open and shut case and "thieving scumbags" is most appropriate.

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