Supreme Court of Georgia

THE SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA’S SCIENTIFIC-CONSULTATIVE BOARD MEETING IN THE DIRECTION OF CRIMINAL LAW

Published: 04/27/2016

On April  27 of 2016  in the Supreme Court of Georgia was held the next scientific-consultative board   meeting covering the criminal justice matters. The meeting was presided by the Chairperson of the Supreme Court  and High Council of Justice  - Nino Gvenetadze.  Judges considering  criminal cases, representatives of the academic circles and lawyers  attended the  meeting.

Within the frames of the meeting the participants discussed  amendments  made to the Criminal Code, concerning  the articles      370  (false testimony,  perjury,  failure to protect the subject of expert research or  mistranslation)  and 371¹ ( giving of the contradicting testimonies  by witnesses  and victims).  Videlicet, according to the legal developments, from  February 20  of  2016  in accordance with  the operating Criminal Code, legislators establish   responsibility not for the contradictory testimonies, but for giving  the false information (  testimony ). The participants discusses the hypothetic casus concerning the above mentioned problem.         

 Along with the above mentioned issues,  the participants of the meeting  gave consideration to the  prospective legislation  of Georgia  on making amendments before culmination of the criminal proceedings    to the article  80  - decision on the material  evidence. Elaboration of the prospective legislation was conditioned  by the  legal shortcomings  in legal regulation concerning taking out of the motor vehicles as a  physical evidence. Videlicet, the cases when it is impossible to establish  the owners/legal possessors  of  motor vehicles  or place of their residence and consequently  serve a notice to them   are in abundance  in practice.  The above mentioned, causes protraction of the decision  on  the  fate of the real evidence, placing of  motor vehicles in the special  parking  lot for an indefinite period and other negative outcome.

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