The HCOJ is reviewing the issue of lifetime appointment of Judges Levan Murusidze and Maia Sulkhanishvili before the expiry of their three-year probationary period and without any evaluation.
The HCOJ is reviewing the issue of lifetime appointment of Judges Levan Murusidze and Maia Sulkhanishvili before the expiry of their three-year probationary period and without any evaluation.
Constitutional Commission has completed its work on the revision of the Constitution of Georgia and has presented a new draft Constitution of Georgia. Wide-ranging public hearings are planned, in addition to debates in the Parliament before the voting takes place. The Commission offered us a new electoral system, according to which the parliamentary mandates will be distributed only to those political parties, that manage to get at least 5% of votes. At the same time, if the quantitative sum of mandates received by political parties is less than 150, undistributed mandates go to the political party, which has amassed the most votes in the elections.
On July 3, 2011, the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association (GYLA) and the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) lodged a joint application to the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of the participants of the protest rally. On 4 May 2017, the European Court of Justice delivered a judgment [1].
GYLA reacts once more to the lack of correct qualification of the alleged crime investigated in Lasha Tordia’s case. The investigation in connection to the alleged crime committed against the General Auditor of Georgia, Lasha Tordia has been launched under para.1 of Article 126 of the Criminal Code of Georgia – battery or other type of violence, while media has reported that the official has been attached in connection to his official activities (Article 3531 of the Criminal Code of Georgia).