Lennart Poulsen is featured in "The Barrister Magazine" October 2025
'Cyprus Property Disputes and the Erosion of Legal Consistency'
The latest prosecutions by Republic of Cyprus concerning property transactions in the North have placed the island’s decades-old territorial and legal division under renewed international scrutiny. A raft of recent cases—culminating in the imprisonment of European nationals for facilitating property sales in Turkish-controlled Northern Cyprus—exposes not only the enduring volatility of the Cyprus question, but also a troubling degree of legal and political asymmetry in the treatment of property rights across the island.
At the heart of the matter lies a fundamental question: can a legal system genuinely lay claim to impartiality when it disregards both the principles of effective remedy under international law and the treatment it affords its own displaced citizens?
Read the full article at pages 34-35 here.
