PERIKLI ZAHARIA (POLLOSHI), Justice of the Supreme Court, was born in Tirana, on January 7, 1955. He is married and has two children. He received a Law Degree from the University of Tirana, Faculty of Law in 1977. He has been Public Solicitor from 1977-1979. He was appointed Judge at a District Law Court in 1979-1983. From 1983-1986 was an inspector at the Supreme Court of Albania. He served as a Clerk to the Parliamentary Standing Committee and as a jurist to the Presidium of the People Assembly of Albania (Legal Office) from 1986-1991 and from 1991-1993 he was Head of Parliamentary Clerks and Legal Advisers. He practiced law from 1994-1996, and was Head of the Albanian Lawyers’ Group of Human Rights from 1994-1996. From 1995-1996 was Director of Judicial Decisions Reporting Project, funded by the U.S. Government and editor of the magazine "Jurisprudence". He was a Legal Adviser at the Court of Cassation from November 1996 to October 1998, and was appointed as Chancellor of this Court by the President of the Republic in October 1998 to June 2000. He was one of the experts that drafted the Constitution of Albania, member of the working group for approaching the Albanian laws to the European Convention on Human Rights, and one of the drafters of the Constitutional Law “The Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms in the Republic of Albanian”. He teaches “Constitutional Law” at the Albania Magistrates’ School since 1996 and on.
The President of the Republic, by the Decree no. 2678, dated July 6 2000, nominated him member of the Supreme Court of Albania. He is a member of the Consultative Council of European Judge (CCJE).