A group of 12 candidate judges enhanced their knowledge on legal aspects relating to the court procedure while dealing with probation beneficiaries.

During the training, the rector of the Academy of Justice highlighted the importance of the justice system in ensuring the rights of the probation beneficiaries. The participants were acquainted, among others, with the new criminal law provisions that should enter into force in July 2022 as well as with the role of the probation service in light of new restrictive measures. The importance of the increased coordination between the probation service and judges was underlined.

This session is a part of the training course which was included in the annual in-service training programme of the Academy of Justice for 2022 for judges, candidate judges, and prosecutors in Armenia.

The training session was organized on 29 November 2021 in-person in cooperation with the Academy of Justice under the framework of the project “Support the scaling-up of the probation service in Armenia“ implemented by the Council of Europe and financed through the Council of Europe’s Action Plan for Armenia 2019-2022.