YEREVAN. – This legislative initiative proposes to separate the oversight over the inter-judicial trial from the examination of the case. Minister of Justice Rustam Badasyan stated this at Wednesday’s special session of the National Assembly of Armenia, during the discussion of the package of bills on making amendments and additions to the Judicial Code and related laws.

In particular, it is proposed to separate the oversight over the inter-judicial trial from the examination of the cases in the Yerevan courts of first instance. These are cases such as the decision to impose judicial sanctions for inspections, the decision to remand someone in custody, as well as various cases related to the legality of the decision to arrest a person, etc. "That is, we will have separate judges who will examine exclusively the cases of judicial oversight over the inter-judicial process," Badasyan explained.

As for the provinces of Armenia, in this case the Ministry of Justice proposes to have separate judges who, unlike the judges of Yerevan who examine criminal cases, in addition to the criminal cases being examined, will also specialize in the cases of judicial oversight over inter-judicial proceedings.

Referring to the issue of the Court of Appeal, the minister informed that it is proposed to add three more judges to the current judges of this court, and they will specialize in judicial oversight of inter-judicial proceedings. "The implementation of this idea is regulated in detail by transitional provisions. It should be noted that, in total, we propose to add 17 new judges to the courts of first instance; at least 8 of them will work in Yerevan," Rustam Badasyan concluded.