Honour for Cypriot judge

 

An honorary doctorate has been awarded to Cypriot judge Giorgos Aresti by the University of Kent for his contribution to European Union Law. The ceremony was held at Canterbury Cathedral.

Aresti is an appointee to the Court of Justice of the European Union since May 2004. At the award ceremony Professor John Fitzpatrick talked about Aresti’s career and the importance of some of the recent decisions the EU Court’s had taken in which Aresti had participated.

In his reply, Aresti, the only non-Briton to receive the award, spoke about the role of EU law in the life of every European.

Aresti began his career as a lawyer in his hometown of Famagusta after studying law at Athens University and subsequently studying for a Master’s degree in Comparative Politics and Government at Kent in 1970. After the Turkish invasion he moved to Nicosia and later Limassol. He had a successful career as a judge and was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Cyprus in 2003. In May 2004 he was appointed as the first Cypriot judge in the European Union Court of Justice, where he serves until today.

 

 

 

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