Monday September 06 , 2010
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The Global Privacy and Security Law Reference

Country Chapter Contributor Profile
 
 
 

Cyprus

Achilleas Demetriades

Achilleas Demetriades is a partner at Lellos P. Demetriades Law Office. He specializes in Intellectual Property and IT Law, European Law, Competition Law, and Human Rights. 

He has been extensively advising on Copyright and Anti-Piracy problems and successfully conducted a number of Human Rights cases including the first case against Cyprus (Modinos) and the first case against Turkey (Loizidou) before the European Court of Human rights of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. He has given lectures and contributed to a number of papers on Anti-piracy issues, Human Rights and Information Technology Law such as Data Protection Laws of the World; Cyprus and International Domain Name Law; and the Cyprus dimension. He has also been engaged in issues relating to the European Union harmonization process and has advised the Government and the semi-Government sector, as well as the Private sector in matters relating to Telecommunications Law, Electricity and Gas Law, Health and Medical Matters.
 

Olga Georgiades

Olga Georgiades is a partner at Lellos P. Demetriades Law Office managing the European Law Department and specializing in Competition, Mergers & Acquisitions, Information Technology, and Energy Law. She is appointed as Arbitrator for domain name disputes concerning the European top-level domain. She is a founding member and Secretary of the Computer Law Special Interest Group of the Cyprus Computer Society. She is the holder of an LLB Hons (English and French Law) and an LLM in European Law with Telecommunications Law from the University College London (UCL). She also holds a Diploma of French Higher Legal Studies from the University of Robert Schumann, Strasbourg. Olga has trained at the European Commission, at the Information Society Directorate and holds a Diploma for Teaching Law at University Level from UCL. She is a frequent speaker at various conferences and the author of legal articles and books on Cypriot legislation concerning, inter alia, Company Law, Cyprus Internet Law, Data Protection and Privacy, as well as Domain Names in Cyprus.