Supreme court of Georgia 04-07-2024
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On April 14 of 2016 Chairperson of the Supreme Court and High Council of Justice Ms. Nino Gvenetadze welcomed the Minister of Justice of the Saxon State of the Federation Republic of Germany Mr. Sebastian Gemkow and the delegation of the Higher Regional Court of Dresden. The following persons were on the delegation: Chairman of the Higher regional Court of Dresden – Mr. Ulrich Hagenloch and judges: Mr. Dietmar Onusait; Mr. Shtephanie Berr; Ms. Mary Shtefan;Mr. Astrid Flurr and Ms. Sabine Shlosan. At the meeting were also present program coordinator of the German Agency for the International Cooperation (GIZ) - Mr. Thomas Mayer and Chairman of the Chamber of Civil cases of the Supreme Court and judges of the Chamber of Civil Cases.
During the meeting session the Chairperson of the Supreme Court provided the guests with the information on the judiciary changes being planned within the third phase of the Reform of Judiciary initiated by the Ministry of Justice; The changes have been presented to the Parliament of Georgia to be reviewed. Ms. Nino Gvenetadze marked, that within the ongoing Reform the rule for the electronic assignment has been maintained basing on the random and just allocation.”The rule of the case assignment will be operationalized on January 1 of 2017, though I was actively communicating and meeting with the judges before my appointing the chairperson and this practice has been running on till the present day; with the participation of that latter we have elaborated and established the rule – supporting implementation in practice of the rule of assignment of cases provided for by the law”. Finally the Council is to pass the above mentioned regulation” – said the Chairman of the Supreme Court.
„ According to the changes the rule of appointing of a judge on a position is also being accomplished; The changes for the criteria developed for the assessment of the candidate for a judge make provision of a detailed list to be exercised by the High Council of Justice to decide assign or not the candidate to the particluar Court, as a judge; The corresponding structural unit of the High Council of Justive shall have the obligation to make inquiries about the judicial candidate for providing objective and full-fledged competition.” - said Ms. Nino Gvenetadze and additionally explained, that according to the changes in legislation denial of appointment of a judicial candidate is subject of appeal to the qualification Chamber of the Supreme Court.
Ms. Nino Gvenetadze marked, that one of the main changes of the Reform is widening of the grounds for the appeal to the Court of Cassation – “One of the basis is the decision of the Court of Appeals contrary to the Judiciary Law of the European Court of Human Rights. The above mentioned change implies a good grounding of judges in the sphere of Human Rights, on which we are actively working; videlicet, we are negotiating with the European Court, about creation of HUDOC analogue Georgian interface and for availability for the judges of the decisions in the Georgian language, we think the program will start working at full force from 2017 - said the Chairperson of the Supreme Court.
The meeting was held in the regime of active conversation and the persons present at the meeting had the possibility of posing the interesting questions.
The foreign colleagues expressed their gratitude towards the Chairperson of the Supreme Court and High Council of Justice on providing them with the detailed information.
The Minister of Justice of the Saxon State of the Federal Republic of Germany - Mr. Sebastian Gemkow showed readiness for close and constructive cooperation on the topical questions of judiciary and among others on the rule of electronic allocation and work of the qualification chamber of the Supreme Court.
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