ROBERT KOCHARIAN: JUDGE’S STATUS IS BINDING AND SUPPOSES MUCH
RESPONSIBILITY
YEREVAN, JULY 20, NOYAN TAPAN. RA President Robert Kocharian, on
July 20, met with the chairmen of courts in the building of the
Cassation Court.
Evaluating such meetings as mutually useful, the President spoke
about judicial reforms implemented in the recent years.
In R. Kocharian’s words, the implemented reforms from the very start
pursued the goal to form a judicial system of a new quality based on
impartiality, independence, and efficiency. The President attached
importance to the steps taken in the direction of ensuring courts’
independence.
R. Kocharian said that the content of the Cassation Courts has been
changed completely: henceforth it is a RA higher judicial instance
(except issues of constitutional justice), which is called for ensuring
identical use of the law. This practice, according to the President,
gives the possibility to form exact rules, which, in its turn, will
considerably contribute to reduction of corruption risks. He also
emphasized the importance of a new judicial code, which will change
the court formation system. Mentioning that a huge step forward has
been taken, the President meanwhile said that the measures aimed at
reforms’ public notification were not sufficient.
According to the report provided to Noyan Tapan by the RA President’s
Press Office, during the interested discussion they attached importance
to rise of the level of society’s legal consciousness, the level of
its awareness. It was mentioned that the reforms, being dynamically
developing phenomena, are a permanent process and need constant
perfection. At the end of the meeting the President suggested the
judges that they always remember that the status of a judge is binding
and supposes much responsibility.