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Barristers

Takis Tridimas

Takis Tridimas

Position

Barrister specialising in European Union law, European Convention of Human Rights, judicial review, competition law, banking law, financial services and commercial law. Cases: Case T- 680/13 Chrysostomides & Co. LLC and Others v the Council, the Euro Group, the Commission, the European Central Bank, and the European Union; Case T-786/14 Bourdouvali and Others v the Council, the Euro Group, the Commission, the European Central Bank, and the European Union; Case C-220/13 P Nikolaou v Court of Auditors, judgment of 10 July 2014; FA (Iraq) v SSHD [2011] UKSC 22 (asylum, remedies for EU rights); Al-Jedda v United Kingdom (application no. 27021/08, ECtHR, 2011, rights to security); Youssef v SSFCA (QBD 2011, UNSC sanctions, EU fundamental rights); Nicolaou v Court of Auditors (case T-241/09, General Court of the EU, 2011, non-contractual liability of the EU); Petridou-Katakalidou v Greece (application no 3463/09, ECtHR, 2010, articles 6, 7 ECHR) Mamidakis v Greece (application no 35533/04, 2007, right to property and right to an effective remedy); Cadbury Schweppes – Pzifer (2003, Merger clearance from the Greek Competition Authority); Case C-244/95 Moskof v EOK [1997] ECR I-6441 (ECJ, judicial review). Also practicing as a Greek advocate specialising banking, stock exchange law, commercial, company, tax law and judicial review.

Career

Qualified 2000, Middle Temple; advocate, Bar of Athens (1987); Professor of European law, King’s College London; Professor and Nancy A. Patterson Distinguished Scholar, Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University; Professor College of Europe, Bruges; formerly: Sir John Lubbock Professor of Banking Law Queen Mary College, University of London (2004-2013); Référendaire, European Court of Justice (1992-95). Publications: ‘The General Principles of EC Law’ (2nd ed, Oxford 2006); Tridimas and Nebbia (Eds): ‘EU Law for the 21st century: Rethinking the New Legal Order’ (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2004); Beatson & Tridimas eds New Directions in European Public Law) (Hart 1998); Ellis & Tridimas ‘Public Law of the European Community’ (Sweet & Maxwell 1995).

Languages

French, Greek.

Education

University of Athens (1984 LLB); University of Cambridge (1985 LLM); University of Cambridge (1991 PhD).

Leisure

Opera, baroque music, poetry.

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