Today, the students of the School on Practical Skills for Young Lawyers organized by the “LEGAL ALLIANCE” Law Firm, met with Mr. Ara Zohrabyan, the President of the Chamber of Advocates of the RA. Prior to meeting with the President of AC, the students met with Ms Melanyan Arustamyan, Head of the Public Defender’s Office. The latter organized a study tour in the office of Public Defender, presented the organizational structure of the Office, as well asa the procedure for involving the public defender; providing support to the citizens and answered the questions of the students.
Ms Arustamyan said that the Armenian PDO model functions better and more efficiently than the former model , which sometimes caused a number violations and bizarre incidents. For example the reference about the working hours of the public defender was issued by the investigators. There were cases wher it turned out that the defender had worked for 48 hours per day.
Then the students made a study tour in the School f Advocates. Mr. Roman Aharonyan, the Deputy Director of the School spoke about the procedure of acceptation to the school and graduate, receiving the degree of advocate. He also answered to the questions about forms of tuition and the correspondence courses.
Mr. Ara Zohrabyan, the President of the Chamber of Advocates, presented to the young lawyers and law students interesting examples of the hard as well as pleasant work of the advocate. He also spoke about the difficult path which the advocates’ community had passed, the structure of the Chamber of Advocates and its objectives.
In response to the question of one of the students about the attitude towards the advocates who earn in dishonest way, Mr. Zohrabyan told that they have passed a really complicated and difficult path in this direction and currently the work in this direction is still underway. Years ago there were often cases when a citizen after learning the price of services asked the second question, “Is Judges money also included?” And also they were engaged for a long time only in “hopeless cases” where the party did not apply to corruption measures. Whereas now, according to Ara Zohrabyan, the first class of the School of Advocates begins with the conversation about fight against corruptionAnd the honest and based on the knowledge work of the advocate will have a really essential importance for the development of the justice system.
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