The Full Court of the Supreme Court will hear the case regarding whether the police may, for the purposes of investigating and prosecuting serious criminal offenses, access to telecommunications data held by providers for commercial or billing purposes, as a Supreme Court justice ruled that this is a matter “of exceptional importance and significance” that could affect a large number of cases.
In a decision dated September 11, 2026, the Supreme Court, sitting as a single-judge panel, ruled that the motion to set aside the order of the Limassol District Court, which had authorized access to the petitioners’ telecommunications data, be referred to the Full Court.
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The case concerns an order of the Limassol District Court issued in March 2026, which granted access to the petitioners’ telecommunications data. The applicants challenged the legality of the order and, in May, received permission from the Supreme Court to file a petition seeking its annulment.
As stated in the ruling, both sides requested that the petition be heard by the Full Court, citing “the seriousness of the legal issues raised,” the “large number of cases that will be affected by the outcome,” as well as “conflicting decisions” by single-judge panels of the Supreme Court in cases involving related issues.
Specifically, the issue that the Full Court will be called upon to examine concerns whether, in light of the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, access may be granted to data held by providers for another purpose, namely for “commercial or billing purposes,” when such data is requested for the investigation and prosecution of serious criminal offenses.
Concluding that the request should be brought before the Full Court, the Court states that it agrees that the arguments raised by the counsel “justify the collective deliberation and judgment of the Full Bench of the Supreme Court,” while also reinforcing “the binding nature of its decisions.”
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Source: CNA
