On 9 February, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan expressed the following in his speech at the event dedicated to the 28th anniversary of the establishment of the Constitutional Court. “Justice is an institution, and fairness is a feeling.”

Iravaban.net turned to Mr. Karen Zadoyan, President of the Armenian Lawyers’ Association, asking to comment on the thought expressed by the head of the executive.

In response, the ALA President stated that everyone, including the Prime Minister of the country, is free to express thoughts about justice and fairness, and he is not going to comment on them.

However, Karen Zadoyan presented his idea about the category of “justice”.

“The category of justice is made up of two different but balanced components: justice and trial. Justice is a component of the moral aspect, and the trial is a component of the legal aspect, without their harmonious combination, real justice cannot be realized.

For example, if a judge is proficient in substantive and procedural law, but is not honest and lacks integrity, he will deliver a subverted justice. And in the contrary, if a judge is honest and adhers t integrity values, but does not have a professional knowledge of substantive and procedural law, he will also deliver a subverted justice.

There is only one way out: harmonious co-realization of the moral and legal balance of the components of true justice.

When true justice is implemented, as a result, citizens find justice in their own country. They do not look for it outside the country, for example, in the European Court of Human Rights,” Karen Zadoyan said.

During the event at the CC, Nikol Pashinyan also stated that the functioning institutions of justice still do not instill a sense of justice in the citizens of the Republic of Armenia.

Responding to this thought, Karen Zadoyan noted that citizens lack a sense of justice, because real justice is not being implemented in the RA.