OPENING OF OFFICIAL SITES OF RA JUDICIAL SYSTEM IS MOST IMPORTANT RESULT OF REFORMS
Noyan Tapan
Jul 19 2007
YEREVAN, JULY 19, NOYAN TAPAN. The legal-judicial reforms, which
are being conducted in Armenia, have, from the beginning, aimed at
forming a judicial system, the activities of which would be based on
the principles of publicity, availability, and clarity, which, in its
turn, would increase the level of legal consciousness among society,
as well as the level of the posession of information concerning the
functions of court instances and would contribute to society in the
realization of the right for receiving information.
One of the most important results of the implementations of reforms
in the judicial system of the country is the opening of the official
internet sites of the judicial system of Armenia, which will become
a source of fledged and always refreshed information due to the
collaborators of the judicial system, as well as new information
technologies. (These are the addresses of the official sites of
the RA judicial system: ";, ";,
"www.dataran .am", "www.judiciary,am").
According to the message of the Press Service of the RA Court of
Appeal, the information located in the official internet site of of
the RA judicial system is provided in two languages: Armenian and
English. The general character reference of the judicial system
of Armenia in force is briefly presented in the main, so-called
Home page of the internet site. Separate sections in this site are
dedicated to the RA Court of Appeal, the RA Civil Court of Appeal,
as well as the Criminal Court of Appeal, and Courts of First Instance
of general competence, as well as Economic Courts.
Information concerning the structure, composition and competence
of the given court, the order of how to submit an application to
that court, as well as the activities of the judges working in that
court is provided in the above-mentioned sections. Here, we can also
become acquainted with the biographical data of the above-mentioned
judges. There is an instruction to go to the official internet site
of the RA Economic Court immediately from the window dedicated to
the Economic Court.
Separate sections in the official internet site of the Armenian
judicial system are dedicated to the Council of Justice, where one
can become acqainted with the decisions made from 2005 to 2007 by
the Justice Council, with the Council of the Chairmen of Courts,
the Union of Judges, the Judicial Department, and the Judicial School.
The decisions of the Council of the Chairmen of Courts, materials
of court practice, the scientific articles and works of judges
and judicial servants, as well as the model variants of all those
documents, which are necessary for every citizen in order to make
judicial activities, that is to say, for submitting applications,
making petitions, as well as making appeal and cessation protests,
to name but a few, are located in the "Library" section of the
internet site.
Information concerning the order of submitting an application to court,
judicial expenses, as well as appeal and cessation examinations,
is located in the "Necessary Information" section of the internet
site. The "Schedule of judicial sittings" page is located in the
above-mentioned section, where every citizen can become acquainted
with the schedules of the judicial sittings held in all the courts
of Armenia. The internet site also has an "Announcements" section,
where all the open and closed competitions announced for vacancies
suggested by the Judicial Department are presented.
Information concerning the representative activities of the RA
Judicial system is recurrently located in the "News" section of the
internet site, and every person can send his or her suggestions to
the corresponding e-mail in the "Suggestions" section, and these
suggestions will be competent for the corresponding officials. This
internet site gives an opportunity to subscribe for news, as well as
be registered in the internet site in order to see judicial acts and
log them into one’s own computer.
The Armenian Office of the United Nations’ Development Program (UNDP)
and the Unites States’ International Development Agency (USAID),
the American Bar Association, and Bearing Point, in particular, have
provided assistance to the work of the official internet site of the
Armenian judicial system.