Partner
Practice and experience
Andreas has practised law in Cyprus for over 30 years, across litigation, personal injury, administrative law, real estate and contract matters. Clients deal with him directly and with no one in between: the partner who reads the file is the one who writes the letters and appears at the hearing.
He conducts a wide range of civil litigation and recovers debts for businesses that are owed money, beginning with the letter of demand and, where that is not paid, the action and its enforcement. Wills, probate and the administration of estates are a speciality of long standing.
Both sides of an injury claim
Insurance companies instruct him to defend claims in court, and he acts just as regularly for injured people pursuing what they are owed. Never on both sides of the same claim: a conflict check is run before anything else happens. Acting for both sides across the practice is deliberate: it means a file is built by someone who knows how the other side will assess it.
Whichever side he is on, the claim turns on the same three questions, asked in the same order: whether a duty of care was owed, whether it was breached, and whether the breach caused the injury rather than merely preceded it. Most of the evidence that answers them exists in the days immediately after the accident, and some of it, recorded footage above all, is gone within a week. The work is set out in full under personal injury.
Wills, probate and estates
He prepares wills, obtains the grant and administers the estate through to the end: probate where there is a will and letters of administration where there is none, collecting in the assets, settling the debts and the tax position before anything is distributed, and registering property in the names of the heirs, which is a step of its own and does not happen by itself. He acts for executors, for administrators and for heirs who simply want the process to move, and he takes the appointment as administrator himself where a family asks him to. The domestic machinery is set out on estate administration.
How he runs a matter
Scope and fee are agreed before substantive work begins. The documents come first: the contract, the correspondence and the register are read before a view is given, because that is where most cases are decided. What the client hears after that is the options, the deadline that is running and the next decision that is theirs to take.
In an administrative matter the first question he asks is the date the decision reached the client, because the period for challenging it is short and it runs from then.
