Dr Christos Clerides is the President of the Cyprus Bar Association and he is the head of Phoebus, Christos Clerides & Associates LLC which was originally established by his late father Phoebus Clerides, Barister-at-Law in 1950. The firm has handled very important cases in its 67-year history of litigations and Dr Clerides has seen through many influential cases that have allowed the legal sector to substantially progress in Cyprus. He has an extensive list of achievements: he has served before the Supreme Court of Cyprus; he is an Honorary President of the International Association for the Protection of Human Rights in Cyprus; he has completed a substantial amount of research into Criminal Law, Security Law, Human Rights and Family Law, alongside contributing to reports, journals and books in his speciality areas, and has been involved in a number of game changing cases.