Shall Information about the Constitutional Court be expressed in the Judicial Statistics as well? Mariam Zadoyan

A High-Level Public-Private Dialogue Conference on the Judicial Performance and Statistics Systems Evaluation is organized and underway today on 14 June. The Conference is organized within the framework of the “Multi-Faceted OGP Action: Open Justice & Anti-Corruption Commitments” project. The Conference is organized with participation of the RA Ministry of Justice, Supreme Judicial Council of the RA, “Armenian Lawyers’ Association” NGO and the CSO Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia.

Chairman of the RA Supreme Judicial Council Mr. Karen Andreasyan, H.E. Mr. Vassilis Maragos, the Head of the European Union Delegation to Armenia, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Karen Karapetyan, OGP Coordinator/Point of Contact of the Office of the Prime Minister of the RA Ms. Lilya Afrikyan, Chairman of the Governing Board of the CSOs Anti-Corruption Coalition of Armenia Mr. Movses Aristakesyan, as well as other professionals in the field and judges participated in the event.

Ms․ Mariam Zadoyan, “Multi-Faceted OGP Action: Open Justice & Anti-Corruption Commitments” Project Expert, noted that the relevant justice guidelines of the Council of Europe, as well as the experience of the EU countries, the USA and the CIS countries were studied.

“According to international standards, firstly, the main variables on the flow of court cases that are presented include data at the level of the reporting year. For example, the number of cases at the beginning of the year, the number of cases entered during the year, the number of cases resolved during the same year, and the number of current unresolved cases at the end of the calendar year,” she said.

According to Mariam Zadoyan, the question arises whether the information about the Constitutional Court should also be expressed in the judicial statistics or not.

“Currently, our legislation does not provide for such a requirement. If we look at the international practice, the measures taken in the direction of the protection of rights are expressed in the international practice, they include, in addition to appeals, if, for example, the country has constitutional revisions, they are included as well. We believe that this should also be included in accordance with those guidelines and indicators,” Mariam Zadoyan said.