Courts, if imagined as vehicles, are the engine or the judiciary, however if other parts don’t function properly, you can’t solve the issues. This is what RA Justice Minister HrayrTovmasyan believes.
Today a round table was organized in the framework of the Eastern Partnership program on expansion of judiciary reforms. During the event, reports on judicial self-government, career of judges and training were presented.
HrayrTovmasyan believes there is no other area where European Council spends more attention than judiciary. The judiciary reforms program of 2012-2016 has studied and applied the European experience and these standards were incorporated into reality not mechanically, but with consideration of the current judiciary situation.
The judiciary reforms project of 2012-2016 has taken into consideration issues from legal, notary, criminal and a number of other areas.
“This is the case when the interest of an agency cannot be valued above the priority issues that we face: all government branches and civil society representatives will be working toward the same cause,” –says Justice Minister HrayrTovmasyn about the 2012-2016 judiciary reforms program.
He believes that the notaries must maker an effort to ease the caseload of courts by solving most of issues on their own. It is important to create alternative efficient models for dispute resolution, such as arbitrage, conciliator. “If 3-4 hundred cases pile at a judge’s desk, then it takes a superman to read them in detail,” – the minister says.
HrayrTovmasyan informs that standards for medical and legal education in many countries is regulated by law, as in both cases it is about life of a person. Based on this approach, the issue of the level of legal education has for the first time appeared on the reforms agenda, since the way law is educated at universities determines the structure of the judiciary system.
At the end of his speech, the Minister of Justice assured that this will not be something that will be left just on paper or elsewhere.

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