Supreme court of Georgia 04-07-2024
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On May 3 of 2016 the Chairperson of the Supreme Court and High Council of Justice - Ms. Nino Gvenetadze met with the co-rapporteurs from the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe being on official visit in Georgia: Boris Silevich and Sherstin Lundgren, as well as the representative of the Secretariat of the Council of Europe - Mr. Bas Klein. The aim of the visit of the Delegation is to monitor the process of fulfillment of the obligations undertaken by Georgia.
Within the frames of the meeting Nino Gvenetadze talked with the members of the delegation about the challenges facing the court system, as well as about the future prospects. The chairperson of the Supreme Court informed the guests about the significant legislative amendments planned within the third stage of judiciary reform. Nino Gvenetadze especially emphasized the reform proposals, such as: implementation of the electronic allocation principle in Common Courts, establishment of new standard of eligibility of cessation appeals and improvement of the disciplinary procedures. According to the chairperson of the Supreme Court the major priority of the reform is standard–setting for the institutional independence of Justice and individual security of judges.
At the meeting the Chairperson of the Supreme Court and High Council of Justice marked while talking about the High Council of Justice: ”The High Council of Justice with the help of the donor organizations - German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the USAID project “Promoting Rule of Law in Georgia” (PROLoG) is starting to work on action plan and strategy and with the active involvement of the state institutions and especially the Ministry of Justice, as well as the coalition of NGOs will be established a committee, guiding the process of working out of the strategy and action plan and implementation of that latter and providing with the information of all the interested persons”.
Within the frames of the meeting Nino Gvenetadze introduced to the guests the arrangements aimed to the transparency of the court activities and improvement of the degree of the judicial proceedings.
The chairperson of the Supreme Court discussed with the members of the delegation the statistics of the General Courts on remand in custody as a judicial restraint, criminal cases of the juvenile offenders and the victims of the family violence.
The meeting was held in the regime of the active dialogue and was attended by the head of the Council of Europe Office in Georgia – Christian Urse.
On May 5 the official visit of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to Georgia is winding up.
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