Education:
LLB (Hons) (1984), University of Southampton
LLM (International Law) (1987), Georgetown University
FCIArb (2018)
Languages: Greek, English and French
Admissions: Called to the Bar of England & Wales (1985); Admitted to the Cyprus Bar Association (1988)
Achilleas joined the firm in 1988, specializes in Human Rights and Intellectual Property and is currently its Managing Partner.
He handles human rights cases before the Cyprus Courts, the Turkish Immovable Property Commission (IPC), the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the UN Human Rights Council and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). In 1989, he successfully conducted the first individual case against Cyprus before the ECtHR, Modinos v Cyprus, and the first individual case against Turkey, Loizidou v Turkey.
He has conducted cases against Cyprus in relation to inhuman treatment, property matters, pension rights, fair trial and freedom of expression; against Turkey in relation to property matters, missing persons and torture; and against Greece for the right to a fair trial.
He is actively involved in the promotion and application of the case law for the protection of human rights and gives lectures and contributes to various programmes for Human Rights. Between 2002 – 2006 he was a member of the Independent Network of Experts for Human Rights of the European Union. Between 2015 – 2022 he was the President of the Human Rights Committee of the Cyprus Bar Association.
As of 1 April 2024 he is the Chair of CCBE PD, Strasbourg of which he has been a member since 2018.
He is also a founding member of the TRUTH NOW NGO www.truthnowcyprus.org and since 2007 has been promoting the idea of a Cyprus Truth Commission.
He worked as a stagiaire in 1985 at the Legal Service of the EU Commission in Brussels and in 1988 at the ECtHR in Strasbourg.
He is married to Yvonne Asprides and has two sons, Alexandros and Paris.
Nicosia, 2026
