NKR CITIZENS HAVE YET TO PETITION CONSTITUTIONAL CHAMBER
Anahit Danielyan
Nagorno Karabakh court
2009/08/26 | 17:54
According to Ararat Danielyan, President of the NKR Supreme Court,
no cases have been brought to the Constitutional Chamber by Karabakh
citizens since they were allowed to do so as of July 1, 2009.
With the passage of the NKR Constitution, the Supreme Court was granted
the right to have cassation and constitutional chambers. Mr. Danielyan
told "Hetq" that the most likely reason that citizens have not yet
taken advantage of the constitutional body is that it is just two
months old and that most residents still do not know of its existence.
In many appeals, regarding violations of the law or constitutional
amendments, and he expressed amazement that citizens haven’t yet
petitioned the Constitutional Chamber.
He went on to say that citizens had the right to petition the chamber
when all other court processes had been exhausted and when a citizen
isn’t arguing the decision of a lower court but the constitutionality
of the laws on which the decision was based.