[1] He was educated at the Pancyprian Gymnasium, and the University of Athens, where he graduated in 1969 with a bachelor's degree in law.
[1] Clerides was appointed deputy attorney general of Cyprus in 2000,[2] and attorney general in 2005, resigned in June 2016, effective in September, and was replaced with Supreme Court judge Costas Clerides.
[3][4] Clerides had faced calls to resign after reports that he had used his position to have a drink-driving prosecution against his son suspended.
[4] Clerides "openly admitted on television that he had used his nolle prosequi powers to drop charges against his son related to driving offences.
"[2] Clerides was also criticised for his handling of the 2005 Helios air crash and Mari explosion trials, and over comments he made about an attempt to publicly seize a ministerial car for an unpaid government debt.