It's a pity that the legal systems and personnel in Cyprus don't support British nationals in the same way that the British Justice system supports GC's.

1.No title Deeds.

2. Developer recommended lawyers protecting Developers instead of their British clients who pay them.

3.Bank of Cyprus charging higher rates of mortgage interest to British mortgage Customers than their domestic Cypriot counterparts.

Over to you - Cypriot Legal System - lets see what you will do about these issues.

given it's april 1st is this some sort of wind upthere is no way thios will be enforced in the trnc.

Dave : Get a life

James : Thanks for your support

Loriot/Emir/Get Real : All of your tribalism is getting boring !!!

REALITY CHECK :

No expat with Title Deed problems gives a stuff about your petty tribalism.

If your lives have come down to nothing better than going over the past, you have no hope whatsoever of moving onto a bettwer futere.

That said, expats are stuck with the problem of Title Deeds / Ownership of the property they have paid for.

Expats must unite to get this problem moving and brought to a head.

Ex[patsbeen given a option by me, use it or lose it YOUR CHOICE !!!

Emir Soler:"I wonder when Mr Meletis Apostolides will take up his residence."

That’s exactly why “Turkish Cypriots” (read Turkish gypsies) should not be given anything back. Not that they ever owned much!

I wonder when Mr Meletis Apostolides will take up his residence.

Paidric,

Your comment was crystal clear, I myself commit to making funds available to Support a lawyer to FIGHT. my emal saht7777@hotmail.com

Time to fight for justice

The Orams case has been nothing more than a diversion/camoflauge promoted by the Cypriot government to draw attention away from their own scandalous and probably (under at a minimum EU Human Rights law)illegal handling of the Title Deeds issue involving the human rights of literally tens of thousands of EU citizens, Russians and Cypriots.

The ROC's behaviour has condoned (by its inaction)and therefore encouraged and continues to encourage, the fraudulent behaviour of developers, the Banking system and certain members of the legal profession.

Lets not mince words, all of us are the VICTIMS of this gross negligence & incompetence by the ROC and the scandalous behaviour of the banks, develops and some members of the legal profession.

The Title Deeds scam must be made to be an issue that threatens the legal and political credibility of the EU itself, the major member countries in the EU and the Russian Federation.

Basically Cyprus is giving the finger to some of the major World powers and the largest economic/ political block on the planet.

There is not point in having a Human Rights Code in the EU (or any other laws for that matter)if the political organs of the EU do not defend and take action when the EU's laws are flouted and/or ignored by a member state.

Frankly, it makes the EU, the European Parliament and the other member states of the EU look like they are not responsive to the citizens of the EU and the politicians and bureaucrats are nothing more than a "chattering class".

ALL property purchasers that are financially and emotionally exposed to the Title Deeds scandal/fraud should commence a class action lawsuit in the ECHR and/or other independent Court of competent jurisdiction naming the ROC, ALL Cypriot Banks, ALL Cyriot Developers and the Cypriot Law Society (which seems incapable of actually controlling its members).

Although I have not discussed the above with CPAG, CPAG is a very credible, focused umbrella organisation that could be utilised to start the ball rolling.

They will need to find a lawyer willing to take on such an action and ALL victims of this scandal should join the class action law suit and supply sufficient funds to move forward.

I will definitely join such an action and I am willing to put a financial contribution for such an action.

IF YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS then stop blogging or writing to newspapers AS YOU ARE NOT SERIOUS ABOUT THE PROBLEM and you are just vewnting your own anger, only interested in your own "self interest" and you are not willing to take a part in a collective, srtrategic plan against the various Cypriot parties that are victimising you and thousands of others.

As far as ANYONE with any basic morals & principles is concerned, the Orams' got their comeuppance good & proper, and are now staring at financial ruin SOLELY because of their own stupidity & recklessness in buying disputed property on the cheap in an illegal, unrecognised breakaway statelet.

It's the equivalent of buying Palestinian-owned property in the West Bank from an Israeli (probably a settler at that!!). Now I must ask you: would anyone in their right mind even REMOTELY contemplate something as dodgy & as risky as that?!?! NO, OF COURSE NOT!!!!

All in all, a COMPLETE no-brainer if you ask me.

Here's good riddance to bad rubbish:-

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I wish the ROC court does something for my House, I Bought it and the lawyers registered it in the Sellers name!!!

Actually they Even went One better they had the Sellers buy it (strange one So who did I buy it from ??)

But Why Should I complain ?????

But Nick, the RoC system is a sham when it comes to respecting property rights (and not just of TCs).

When TCs want their land back, the RoC refuses or obtructs them from receiving what they are legally entitled to.

Remember, what's good for the geese....!!!!

Legally, any Turkish Cypriot land in the South is held in trust by the (Greek-Cypriot) Cyprus Government.

In regards Paphos Airport, if it were on land formerly owned by a Turkish Cypriot, the Government could invoke compulsory purchase, as happens in Britain, and would have happened had Heathrow got the third runway.

The Orams knew what they were doing, but the British Government should have done a lot more to protect British people by warning them of the legal pitfalls of acquiring property in the North.

British courts honest,good luck trying in cyprus court.