Disciplinary proceedings have been instituted against judge of the Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan Karine Petrosyan.

In relation to this, the judge wrote the following on her Facebook page: “Failed attempt to pressure…Yesterday, on 6 March 2019, I received a closed, confidential envelope from the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Armenia stating information that the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia has instituted disciplinary proceedings against me. Since the liability to maintain the confidentiality of the disciplinary proceedings against a judge lies on the body instituting proceedings, in this case the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia, I reserve myself the right to make certain observations regarding the disciplinary proceedings.

In particular, according to Decision 67-A of 6 March 2019, the proceedings were instituted in relation to the fact that I had not submitted 150 insolvency cases to the office so that they could be transmitted to the Insolvency Court.

First, I regret that the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia has been immersed in the conflict between me and the Supreme Judicial Council. I personally know Artak Zeynalyan during the court sessions that he participated in and deeply respect him and his career as an advocate. I am certain that the reason for institution of proceedings was the distorted information that the Judicial Department had provided to the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia. Being well aware of the fact that those 150 cases were complete, were in the stage of being archived and were not subject to be transmitted to the Insolvency Court, the Judicial Department provided misinformation to the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia.

Since the Judicial Department of the Republic of Armenia has responded to any one of my applications that I recently addressed to the Supreme Judicial Council, I assume that, in this case, the Judicial Department acted under the guidance of the Supreme Judicial Council, and more specifically the person whose powers have terminated by law.

After all, the lawfulness of the actions of the aforementioned person are also a subject for examination on 1 April 2019 within the scope of several claims instituted by the Supreme Judicial Council.

I condition the activities of the minister by the lack of true information and urge the other participants of the process to not waste time and effort to make new attempts to pressure.

I will see you in court.”