“Theoretical and practical issues of the application of coercive measures of medical nature in the RA criminal proceedings” – the monograph of Arnold Vardanyan, an expert of the Court of Cassation, Candidate of Juridical Sciences (PhD), has been published.
The young lawyer is 25 years old, but he already teaches at the Yerevan State University, the School of Advocates and the Police Academy.
“Regardless of what activity a person will be engaged in, where he will be, what his status will be, for me, science always stands out and differs from all other fields, because in science there is unlimited freedom of thought, which you can never find in different fields.” In an interview within the framework of the series “Legal Scholars”, Vardanyan answered the question saying why he preferred science at a young age, and not the highly paid work in a law firm.
According to him, science knows no boundaries, a person is constrained within the limits of his mind, and the freedom of the boundaries of the mind always inspires. “I even think about doing science exclusively, because the freedom, the opportunities that science gives, cannot be achieved in almost any field, but it is another matter that from a financial point of view it is not considered a sustainable activity,” he said.
The lawyer mentions that the choice of the topic of his monograph was conditioned by the fact that the topic was closed, before that it had not become a subject of study. “There were accumulated problems that needed to be revealed, opened, and presented in a new way.
If we are talking about problems, I would like to pay more attention to the problems related to the judicial status of people with mental health problems, because we have a problem with the approach and attitude of such a person. For years, there has been a well-established approach that people with mental health problems are considered mentally ill, so it is not advisable to involve those people in the proceedings because people do not understand their rights and responsibilities. Thus, it is not expedient to participate in their trial. And this approach has developed steadily. We had a situation when people did not participate in the ongoing trial against them at all,” Arnold Vardanyan said.
According to him, one important fact is not taken into account – that these people are considered to be the same accused, they have the same rights, responsibilities as the others, it is another question to what extent they can realize those rights and responsibilities due to their mental health problems, but the state should give them the scope of those rights․ “Whether they will use those rights or not is another question.”
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