On July 15, 2015, the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) presented the research to the public: “Sakdrisi-Kachaghiani – Destruction in the Name of Law”. The research conducted by GYLA revealed a number of important issues, namely:

On July 16, 2015 media released information stating that LEPL Technical and Constructions Supervision Agency of the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia issued a construction permit on Panorama Tbilisi project. We would like to voice our position about the decision and state, that: 

The Ministry of Justice has recently revised the draft law on the Prosecutor’s Office based on the Venice Commission’s recommendations. It needs to be noted that the Venice Commission considered the Coalition’s opinion on this issue in its extensive comments and suggested to significantly revise the draft.  The opinion criticized several initiatives of the authors of the draft law . 

GYLA Foundation for the Support of Legal Education held graduation ceremony for the 2014-2015 Law Students and celebrated its 10 years anniversary. 

On July 22, 2015 GYLA in partnership with the European Human Rights Advocacy Center (EHRAC) applied to ECtHR about illegal detention of N.J. and termination of criminal investigation and criminal persecution on the fact. 

Excessive concentration of power in the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has always been subject to criticism. A comprehensive reform and depoliticizing of the Ministry was one of the election promises of the Georgian Dream. In the beginning of 2015, Irakli Garibashvili, the Prime Minister, announced a start of the reform of the MIA. As part of the reform, the government proposed a draft law on State Security Service which also envisaged amendments to up to 50 other laws. The bill, together with its applicable amendments, was adopted by the Parliament after the third reading on 8 July.

 On April 12, 2010 GYLA applied to ECtHR on behalf of the applicants “Sudio Maestro”, journalists T.Laliashvili and S.Kapanadze and N. Inasaridze, member of the Political Party “the New Rights” (he carried out photo recording of the rally). On June 30, 2015 ECtHR rendered a judgment that was published on the web-page of the court on June 23, 2015  and the case “Studio Maestro and others vs. Georgia” has been removed from the list of pending cases. 

On July 29 'Coalition for Equality' presented one-year monitoring report on anti-discrimination law enforcement.  

On August 5, 2015, under the ruling of the Tbilisi City Court, the ltd. “Broadcasting Company Rustavi 2” (Rustavi 2, hereinafter), the shares of the shareholders and the company’s assets were sequestrated; also, the directorate of the Rustavi 2 was prohibited from governing the company or undertaking any actions relating to management of the company, as well as managing the property. This was preceded by the businessman Kibar Khalvashi submitting the lawsuit to the court for returning the “Rustavi 2” shares and requesting sequestration of the property of the “Rustavi 2” partners for the guarantee of the lawsuit.

Coalition for an Independent and Transparent Judiciary reacts to the processes of selection and appointment of judges held in July 2015, which were marked with low degree of transparency and openness. On July 20 the process of interviewing judicial candidates was commenced and went on for several days. Unlike the previous years, the interviews were held behind closed doors, per information on the official web page of the High Council of Justice (HCOJ) and last year’s amendments to the HCOJ rules. Information on the selection of candidates was published on the HCOJ web page with extreme delay, effectively depriving any interested party a chance to attend and evaluate the process.