146 be avoided, and which if they had followed, would have inflicted upon the people of Cyprus, whom the Executive and Legislative organs of the Republic are bound to protect, inevitable irreparable evil; and furthermore if it can be shown that no more was done than was reasonably necessary for that purpose, was not disproportionate to the evil avoided’, the Supreme Court thought it was its duty to do in view of its “all important and responsible function of transmitting legal theory into living law, applied to the facts of daily life for the preservation of social order.” His Lordship then opined that recourse has to be taken to the ‘doctrine of necessity where ignoring of it would result in disastrous consequences to the body politic and upset the social order....’ The Court then posed a question as to how many of the acts, legislative or otherwise, should be condoned or maintained, notwithstanding their illegality in the wider public interest. The court called this ‘a principle of condonation and not