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NEWSPAPER: TAKING ADVANTAGE OF PUBLIC DISCONTENT AT COURT OF CASSATION, JUSTICE MINISTER OF ARMENIA SEEKS TO REPLACE ITS CHAIRMAN
arminfo
Thursday, June 14, 13:53
Minister of Justice of Armenia Hrayr Tovmasyan seeks to replace
Chairman of the Court of Cassation Arman Mkrtumyan taking advantage of
the public discontent at the court, a Yerevan-based Haykakan Zhamanak
Daily writes.
By data of the paper, Tovmasyan may be dismissed after the presidential
election of Feb 2013. Considering that "threat," the minister intends
to use the conflict of the Chamber of Lawyers of Armenia and the Court
of Cassation in order President Serzh Sargsyan dismisses Mkrtunyan
and appoints him on the given position.
To recall, on June 11 over 550 of 1,200 members of the Chamber of
Lawyers of Armenia went on a one- day strike on Monday to express
their displeasure with the activities of the Cassation Court. Their
key complaint is that availing itself of the ambiguity of the new
cassation procedures approved in 2007, the Cassation Court has ever
since passed lots of arbitrary verdicts. For some unknown reasons,
the Court accepts one complaint and declines another one though both
are based on the same criteria. So, the lawyers suspect the Court of
being corrupt.
arminfo
Thursday, June 14, 13:53
Minister of Justice of Armenia Hrayr Tovmasyan seeks to replace
Chairman of the Court of Cassation Arman Mkrtumyan taking advantage of
the public discontent at the court, a Yerevan-based Haykakan Zhamanak
Daily writes.
By data of the paper, Tovmasyan may be dismissed after the presidential
election of Feb 2013. Considering that "threat," the minister intends
to use the conflict of the Chamber of Lawyers of Armenia and the Court
of Cassation in order President Serzh Sargsyan dismisses Mkrtunyan
and appoints him on the given position.
To recall, on June 11 over 550 of 1,200 members of the Chamber of
Lawyers of Armenia went on a one- day strike on Monday to express
their displeasure with the activities of the Cassation Court. Their
key complaint is that availing itself of the ambiguity of the new
cassation procedures approved in 2007, the Cassation Court has ever
since passed lots of arbitrary verdicts. For some unknown reasons,
the Court accepts one complaint and declines another one though both
are based on the same criteria. So, the lawyers suspect the Court of
being corrupt.