Cyprus case law search
NeoLaw searches Cyprus case law across 69,898 judgments, from the law reports of 1883 to decisions given this year. Ask in English or Greek. NeoLaw translates terms of art both ways, ranks the cases by relevance and writes a short summary of each one.
SummaryThe seller of a food business promised the buyer not to compete. The Court upheld the covenant only as far as it was reasonable in area and duration to protect the goodwill sold, and severed the rest.
SummaryA pharmacy business was sold with a five-year, island-wide non-compete. The appeal turned on whether a restraint that wide was reasonable under section 27 of the Contract Law, Cap. 149.
SummaryThe covenant was limited to the Larnaca district and to two years after the sale. The court found it no wider than the buyer needed to protect the goodwill it bought, and enforced it.
Illustrative example: the cases, parties and citations shown are fictitious.
How it works
A search takes a question the way you would put it to a colleague and returns the cases that answer it, with a summary of each.
Type the question in plain words. If you name a judge, the search runs only inside that judge’s decisions.
It detects the language, adds the Greek or English terms of art and picks out the key terms, so an English question also finds Greek judgments.
A language model scores each candidate against your question. The strongest matches are listed under Relevant, the rest under Other Results.
Result cards appear as soon as the search returns, and the summaries stream in while you read.
Open a judgment in full in a side panel, ask for a one-page brief, chat with a single case, or ask a follow-up about the whole set.
Case brief
Ask for a brief and NeoLaw writes one page from the judgment, covering the parties, facts, issues, holding, reasoning and legal basis, the cases it followed or distinguished, and a practical takeaway.
The key quote is kept only if it appears word for word in the judgment. Briefs are saved and shared across your firm, so a colleague who opens the same judgment sees the same brief. Each one carries a reminder to check it against the full text.
A non-compete given on the sale of a business binds the seller only as far as it is reasonable.
“…a covenant in restraint of trade given on the sale of a business is upheld only so far as it is reasonable in area and duration to protect the goodwill the buyer paid for…”
Illustrative example: the cases, parties and citations shown are fictitious.
Judges
A judge’s other decisions.Click the judge’s name on a result to see their decisions, newest first, with the courts they sat in and the years covered. Search within them, for example for «προσωρινό διάταγμα». This covers first-instance decisions that name their author; appellate panels are not attributed yet.
Name the judge in the question.Ask about interim injunctions before a named judge and the search runs only inside that judge’s decisions. One click shows all results again.
Coverage
NeoLaw’s corpus is built from CyLaw, the public collection CyLII publishes for the Cyprus Bar Association. It covers the Supreme Court (Ανώτατο Δικαστήριο Κύπρου), the Court of Appeal, the administrative courts, the district courts and the specialised courts.
| Court or authority | Years | Judgments |
|---|---|---|
| Supreme & Constitutional | ||
| Supreme CourtIncluding the Cyprus Law Reports, 1883–1960 | 1883–2026 | 12,195 |
| Judgments of the Supreme CourtEnglish reports, which also carry some first-instance judgments | 1964–1987 | 2,365 |
| Supreme Constitutional Court | 1961–1963, 2023–2026 | 562 |
| Appeals | ||
| Court of Appeal | 2023–2026 | 1,169 |
| Administrative Court of Appeal | 2025–2026 | 87 |
| Administrative & specialised | ||
| Administrative Court | 2016–2026 | 5,872 |
| Administrative Court of International Protection | 2018–2026 | 7,129 |
| Tender Review Authority | 2004–2026 | 2,199 |
| Commission for the Protection of Competition | 2002–2025 | 789 |
| District courts | ||
| District Courts, civilNicosia, Limassol, Larnaca, Paphos and Famagusta | 2005–2026 | 23,556 |
| District Courts, criminalWith the Assize Courts | 2005–2026 | 10,576 |
| Family Courts | 2005–2026 | 1,383 |
| Labour Disputes Courts | 2009–2026 | 798 |
| Rent Control Courts | 2005–2026 | 1,207 |
| Juvenile | ||
| Juvenile Court | 2023–2025 | 11 |
| All courts | 1883–2026 | 69,898 |
Counts of the judgments in NeoLaw’s corpus, October 2026.
Beyond search
The Legal Agent.Ask a question of Cypriot law and the Legal Agent searches legislation and case law, reads what it finds and answers with citations.
Where searches run.In the standard setup, case-law search uses a cloud AI model to embed your question and write the summaries. With strict private mode on, it runs on our private model. See private AI for law firms.
For contracts governed by Cyprus law, NeoLaw’s contract review brings in the relevant Cypriot legislation. See AI contract review and contract redlining.
FAQ
The Supreme Court with the Cyprus Law Reports from 1883, the Supreme Constitutional Court, the Court of Appeal, the Administrative Court of Appeal, the Administrative Court, the Administrative Court of International Protection, the district courts in civil and criminal cases, the Assize Courts, the family, labour disputes and rent control courts, and the Juvenile Court. It also holds decisions of the Tender Review Authority and the Commission for the Protection of Competition.
The earliest judgments are in the Cyprus Law Reports from 1883. Supreme Court judgments of the Republic run from 1961 to this year, and district court judgments from 2005. The coverage table on this page lists the years for each court.
Yes. Most recent judgments are in Greek. NeoLaw adds the Greek terms of art to an English question and the English terms to a Greek one, so one search covers judgments in both languages. Summaries come back in the language of your question.
CyLaw is the public source, and NeoLaw’s corpus is built from it. NeoLaw adds a search that takes a question in plain English or Greek, translates terms of art, ranks the cases by relevance and summarises each one. Every result links back to the judgment on CyLII.
The case-law search is built for judgments, and statutes can appear in the results when your question is about them. For a question that needs both, ask the Legal Agent, which searches legislation and case law and cites both.
Use them to decide what to read. Each summary is one to three sentences written by a language model from the judgment. Read the judgment in full before you rely on it. A brief’s key quote is kept only if it appears word for word in the judgment.
Yes. Filter by court tier and by date, sort by relevance or by date, choose hybrid, semantic or keyword search, and set the depth from 10 to 250 cases. Name a judge in your question and the search runs only inside that judge’s decisions.
In the standard setup, case-law search uses a cloud AI model to embed your question and write the summaries. With strict private mode on, search, ranking and summaries run on NeoLaw’s private model in Limassol. An administrator sets the mode for the whole deployment.
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