Supreme Court of Georgia

Nino Gvenetadze welcomed the members of the Committee of Legal Affairs of European Parliament

Published: 03/31/2016

Nino Gvenetadze welcomed  the delegation of  European Parliament officially visiting Georgia. The delegation consists of: Chairman of the Committee of Legal Affairs, member of People’s Party Pavel Svoboda and members of  Committee of Legal Affairs: Ms. Francesca Meltraman, Mr. Francisco Ruiz-Risuenos, Ms. Heidi Hautala and Mr. Magnus Nordanskog.            

Chairperson of the  Supreme Court and  High  Council of Justice Ms. Nino Gvenetadze greeted the  members of the delegation. Ms. Nino Gvenetadze talked with the members of the delegation about the challenges existing in the system of Justice. Chairperson of the  Supreme Court and High Council of Justice  surveyed the legislative initiatives planned within the third wave of the Justice reform, aiming at establishment of the high standard of the institutional independence of  Justice and individual defense of judges.

Ms. Nino Gvenetadze gave a special  emphasis to implementing in the Common Courts the project  of   the electronic and random allocation  of  cases. “The existing mechanisms of allocation of the cases according to the alphabet and order will be replaced with the  automatic electronic allocation  mechanism of random and equal assignment  of judges; this will remove more than one awkward question concerning the matter of disinterest of judges  hearing a particular case and regulate the matters of discontent among judges concerning  the problems of defects in distribution of cases  and  liquidates nonconfidence of the sides of  judicial proceedings due to the allocating a particular case to a particular judge” – said the chairperson of the  Supreme Court. 

At the Meeting Ms. Nino Gvenetadze surveyed  the reform suggestions, concerning establishment of the independent institution of inspectors and the improvement of the standard of eligibility of cessation appeals in the terms of effective use of European Human Rights Court case law. Chairperson of  the Supreme Court marked, that in Strasbourg, France within the official visit to Chairman of  European Court of Human rights Mr. Guido Raimondi  was reached an agreement on creating a Georgian  analogous version of the electronic search system (HUDOC)  of the decisions of European Court. During the meeting the sides talked about the role of the High Council of Justice as a garantor of independence.   

Ms. Nino Gvenetadze emphasized the fact, that the main  aim of every planned activity is building of trust of society towards Justice.    

Members of European Parliament expressed their gratitude towards Ms. Nino Gvenetadze for providing them with the  information and the efforts made for developing of Justice.     

Within the meeting the members  of delegation listened to the position of Chairperson about the issues of interest  in the question and answer mode.

Finally, Chairperson of  the Supreme Court and High Council of Justice Ms. Nino Gvenetadze and the members of the delegation of European Parliament  exchanged the souvenirs.

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