Tim Eicke

Sir Tim Eicke (born 27 July 1966) is a German-born British barrister and Judge of the European Court of Human Rights.

Education

Eicke studied German law at the University of Passau in south-east Germany, graduating in 1988. From there, he crossed the channel to Britain where he undertook further study in both Scots and English law at the University of Dundee. In June 2017, Eicke received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Dundee.

Career

After working as a legal consultant for an oil and gas information company, Eicke was called to the bar in 1993 at Middle Temple. In 1999, Eicke joined Essex Court Chambers gaining expertise in the fields of European Union and international human rights law and regularly appearing in the European Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights as well as domestic courts including the UK Supreme Court.

Eicke was on the panel of counsel for the Equality and Human Rights Commission (2011–2015) in addition to editing the European Human Rights Reports.

Eicke was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2011 and was subsequently elected as Britain's judge in the European Court of Human Rights in 2016 after a clear majority of representatives of the Council of Europe voted him in.

He sat in the case Chowdury and others v. Greece, in which The AIRE Centre was a third party. Due to past links with this organisation, this has been pointed out as a possible conflict of interest.

Memberships Administrative and Constitutional Law Bar Association, American Society of International Law; Bar European Group; British-German Jurists Association; Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR); Immigration Law Practitioners' Association; International Court of Arbitration; Justice Expert Panel on Human Rights in the EU; Lawyers for Liberty; Lincolns Inn; London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association; UK Association of European Law.