 He started his education at the law school of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens from where he graduated with a first class degree followed by a Doctor Iuris, Athens - "Summa Cum Laude".Sir Basil then went to read law at the University of Cambridge where he earned MA and PhD (York Prize) in 1970.In 1972, he was called to the bar at Gray's Inn, of which he is now a Bencher.