The Procedural Law Unit at the University of Nicosia is pleased to announce that its 5th Annual Symposium will take place on Thursday, the 11th of December 2025, between 09:00 and 18:30, at UNESCO Amphitheatre, University of Nicosia.
This year’s symposium is organised in collaboration with the International Association for Judicial Independence and World Peace (JIWP) and will focus on the theme:
“Judicial Independence and Liberal Democracy Under Threat: The Challenge of Implementing the ELI Mt Scopus Standards on Judicial Independence”
The symposium will bring together leading scholars, judges, legal practitioners and policymakers for a full day of panel discussions, examining both theoretical and practical dimensions of safeguarding judicial independence amid growing global pressures on liberal democratic institutions.





