Supreme Court of Georgia

Georgian Judge Is Elected As Vice-President of CEPEJ

Published: 12/19/2014

On December 11-12, 2014, in Strasbourg, the Judge of Tbilisi Appeal Court Irakli Adeishvili was elected as Vice-President of CEPEJ. The CEPEJ is composed of experts from all the 47 member States of the Council of Europe and is assisted by a Secretariat. The Council is guided by the bureau, which is composed of the President, the Vice-President and two members of the Bureau. Georgian Judge already had been a member of the Bureau. This time Mr. Adeishvili is elected as the Vice-President by the colleagues.

The aim of the CEPEJ is the improvement of the efficiency and functioning of justice in the member States, and the development of the implementation of the instruments adopted by the Council of Europe to this end.

Its tasks are:

-    to analyse the results of the judicial systems

-    to identify the difficulties they meet

-    to define concrete ways to improve, on the one hand, the evaluation of their results, and, on the other hand, the functioning of these systems

-    to provide assistance to member States, at their request

-    to propose to the competent instances of the Council of Europe the fields where it would be desirable to elaborate a new legal instrument.

In order to carry out these different tasks, the CEPEJ prepares benchmarks, collects and analyses data, defines instruments of measure and means of evaluation, adopts documents (reports, advices, guidelines, action plans, etc), develops contacts with qualified personalities, non-governmental organizations, research institutes and information centers, organizes hearings, promotes networks of legal professionals.

Election of Georgian Judge as the Vice-President of CEPEJ proves that Georgian participation in the work of the Commission is important.