The Criminal Procedure Code has both positive and negative sides: “There are some norms which will create favorable conditions for forming a better judicial system and being more legal, but at the same time there are norms which give us, practical lawyers and specialists of criminal law, some causes for hesitation in terms of their use. As for now, we do not imagine the meaning of their existence,” advocate Tamara Baghdasaryan said.
As a positive norm, she mentioned the fix of “the right of being silent” in the new Criminal Procedure Code, and according to our interlocutor, it gives the opportunity to exclude the false treachery cases. “Now the situation is as follows: the person can witness, a false evidence, only not accuse another person, that is, not to engage in a false treachery. Meanwhile the draft provides the right of being silent, that is to say, the person does not have the right of the false treachery. It is much better if the person is silent than if he/she gives false evidence,” the lawyer mentioned.
We would also like to mention that the new Draft Criminal Procedure Code was put in the circulation since 2012. Recently the Minister of Justice Hovhannes Manukyan told iravaban.net that the ministry has an aim “to continue everything smoothly till 2015.”
