PRICE: JUDGES HAVE FINANCIAL DEPENDENCE

Panorama.am
21:34 20/05/2008

Today the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan had a labor meeting with
the president of the Court of Appeal Hovhannes Manukyan. According
to the press service of the president’s administration the topic
of the discussion between the President and the Judge was providing
independence to the courts.

It was stated out that the mission of the project is to increase
the sense of reliability of public towards the justice system. The
officials came to a common conclusion that only by reducing the level
of corruption and by improving the effective working style of the
courts society can rely on the justice.

Hence, country should take serious measures to form independent
court system.

In this regard the President and the Judge decided to take the
working activities of the court representatives under control aiming
to reveal the violations of rules and ethics. It was agreed to draft a
project of recommendation as soon as possible to start the discussion
and analysis.