AUTOMATIZED SYSTEM OF MANAGEMENT TO BE INTRODUCED INTO COURTS OF ARMENIA

YEREVAN, AUGUST 15, NOYAN TAPAN. An automatized system of management
will be introduced into courts of Armenia. This process will be
implemented by one of American programming companies which was
recognized the winner of the competition held by the the WB Office
implementing a credit program on the judicial-legal reforms. As Arsen
Mkrtchian, the head of the staff informed in the interview to the
Noyan Tapan correspondent, the proposal concerning the introduction
of that system was made by the “DPK Consulting” American consulting
company in Armenia which, jointly with the “Ameria” company, carried
out consulting assistance of the modernization program of courts.
That has a goal to study the state of organization of courts in the
republic and propose possible reforms, concrete events addressed
to improvement of management of courts based on those studies.
A.Mkrtchian mentioned that the conception “management of courts”
includes affairs management, budget management, human resources
management, etc. That will be introduced into all courts of Armenia,
and a centralized information base will be created with the goal of a
systematization of works. It was mentioned that the system envisages
a fast response to citizens’ applications by implementation of the
function of a term control. For example, the similar system used
in the USA also contains that function which, according to the
estimation of the head of the staff of the RA Court of Cassation,
is carried out in a very interesting way, by marks of different
coulors on applications: yellow colour mentions that there are
still 1-2 days for answering the citizen’s application, going to
red, 1 day, and overdue documents and applications were marked with
“unpleasant red” colour. Josef Traficanti, the former Deputy of the
Administrative Judge of the state of New York, USA, is the head of
the modernization program of courts of Armenia. On his initiative
and by the USAID financing, representatives of the judicial system of
Armenia, including the Secretariate of the Court Chairmen’s Council
and the RA Court of Cassation visited the state of New York, USA,
at the end of the program. During the visit lasted from July 30 to
August 8, they had an opportunity to study the American experience
with a goal to introduce that system in Armenia with success.