CHAIRMAN OF ARMENIA’S COURT OF APPEAL DISCUSSES JUDICIARY REFORMS WITH CE COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

ARKA News Agency
Oct 8 2007
Armenia

YEREVAN, October 8. /ARKA/. The Chairman of Armenia’s Court of
Appeal Hovhannes Manukian and CE Commissioner for Human Rights
Thomas Hammerberg discussed the course of the judiciary reforms in
the country, the Press Secretary of Armenia’s Court of Appeal Alina
Engoyan reported.

At the meeting, Hammerberg raised a number of issues on mechanisms of
application of case verdicts of the European Court on Human Rights in
the legal system of Armenia, as well as problems of few verdicts of
"not guilty" and serving of court verdicts.

In respect to the application of case verdicts of the European Court in
Armenia, the Chairman of Armenia’s Court of Appeal Manukian attached
importance to the role of the highest judicial instance of Armenia in
the court practice of the country. According to him, here the act of
the highest instance is to directly apply the case verdicts of the
European Court.

The CE Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammerberg arrived for
a five-day visit to Armenia Sunday.