4 beneficiaries have applied to the Yerevan AAC lawyer Zaruhi Harutyunyan as of the mid-afternoon of today. They received answers to their questions from civil and criminal areas.   Yerevan AAC has been operated by the Armenian Young Lawyers Association since 2010.   “We work in three directions, providing free legal advice to citizens, public awareness within the framework of which we hold trainings and awareness events at universities, as well as distribute information materials in streets, and the third direction is system-level and procedural reforms, where we raise legal and institutional inefficiencies, loopholes and present them to the National Assembly and the Government for respective amendments,” – says the head of the Yerevan AAC Marat Atovmyan.   Laura Poghosyan has been using AAC’s legal assistance for 2 years now. She believes that free legal service is very useful for socially insecure groups. “I once tried to gift some coffee and sweets to the girls here, but it was turned down so that I had to discard it I don’t know how,” – Laura Poghosyan says.   Marat Atovmyan says free legal assistance is provided in all areas of law, but attorneys are provided only for corruption complaints. For the past year the AAC has proposed 16 system-level and procedural reforms and has 36 successful cases.   “I would like to mention a court case related to medical, examination commission. A lady applied to us who for years held 2-nd degree disability status. But for unknown reasons the medial examination commission calls her for a check-up. He urged that she was barely examined, but her status was changed to 3-rd group. Our attorney appealed the decision through court and we succeeded. We recently found out the decision was appealed in the court of appeal,” – Marat Atovmyan says.

Nune Hovsepyan