ArmInfo. The Venice Commission welcomes the Armenian authorities' intention to reform the judiciary. It also understands the motivation behind the preparation of the Draft Amendments, notably to free the judiciary of judges who, in the past, had committed serious human rights violations and thus undermined the general public trust in the judiciary.
The Venice Commission does not see the need for new preventive measures, as they already seem to exist in the current Judicial Code, which provides strong grounds to hold judges liable for the violation of human rights which take place in the future, according to the Joint Opinion of the Venice Commission and the CE Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law.
The 18-page documents reads, in particular that "By letter of 16 December 2021, Mr Karen Andreasyan, Minister of Justice of Armenia, requested an opinion from the Venice Commission on the draft Laws on making amendments to the Constitutional Law on the Judicial Code and to the Constitutional Law on the Constitutional Court."
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