Statistics should be a Tool for assessing, planning and effective managing the Results of Judicial Activities: Karen 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 are participating.

ALA President Mr. Кaren Zadoyan in his speech mentioned that participants may have a question: how are the assessment of judges and the judicial statistics system related to each other.

“The fact is that the analysis of international standards and best practices proves that statistics can be an effective tool in the case of systematic and conscious application of judicial activities, in assessing performance, planning and effective management of courts,” the ALA President said.
Karen Zadoyan emphasized that measurement and evaluation of performance in the judicial system can be carried out at 3 levels: domestic, individual courts and individual (judges).

“We believe that one of the main issues is that reforms aimed at improving the system of individual assessment of judges should be considered more broadly, as part of the formation of a vision aimed at modernizing the structures of measurability and evaluation of the judicial system, where statistics will become a tool for assessing, planning and effective managing the results of judicial activities,” Karen Zadoyan noted.