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.
2015-07-24 13:00 See moreThe 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 .
2015-07-22 17:34 See moreGYLA Foundation for the Support of Legal Education held graduation ceremony for the 2014-2015 Law Students and celebrated its 10 years anniversary.
2015-07-22 10:25 See moreOn 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:
2015-07-17 11:51 See moreOn 7 July 2015 Venice Commission, Consultative Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE) and OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR) issued a preliminary joint opinion on the draft amendments to the Law on Prosecutor’s office of Georgia. Prior to the issuance of the opinion, the Coalition for Independent and Transparent Judiciary had evaluated the draft amendments reforming the prosecution system that were proposed by the Ministry of Justice and supported by the Government of Georgia. Additionally, the Coalition had the opportunity to present its detailed opinion on the prosecution reform to the Venice Commission.
2015-07-16 14:24 See moreOn 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 December 12, 2014, the Ministry of the Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia and the National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation have made total of 17 actions and 4 decisions regarding Sakdrisi-Kachaghiani oldest mine, in one day, in the extremely suspicious circumstances. As a result, on December 13, 2014, the ltd. “RMG Gold” has illegally exploded the Sakdrisi-Kachaghiani archaeological object.
2015-07-15 12:00 See moreGeorgian Young Lawyers’ Association voices its position about expansion of occupation line by Russian Federation on the territory controlled by Georgia. According to the information released by media, on July 11, 2015 Russian troops pushed on the occupation line by 300 meters in village Orchosani Gori region, and by half and a kilometer in Tsitelubani-Khurvaleti area. Part of Baku-Supsa pipeline was also left behind the territory controlled by Georgia.
2015-07-14 16:00 See moreTBILISI – Coalition for an Independent and Transparent Judiciary is hosting a roundtable discussion on the Third Wave of Judicial Reform on July 14, 2015, at 10:30 a.m., at the Holiday Inn Hotel. The meeting will bring together government and civil society stakeholders to discuss the draft laws that the Ministry of Justice of Georgia has recently submitted to the Parliament.
2015-07-14 13:35 See moreExcessive 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.
2015-07-13 12:52 See moreOn June 9, 2015 Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association arranged a round table about evaluation of the report on implementation of the 2014 action plan of the National Human Rights Protection Strategy. GYLA’s report revealed the following: Ø Activities of the Interagency Coordination Council of the Georgia’s Human Rights Protection Government Action Plan were carried out with irregularities; - Activities of the working groups set up within the Council fail to meet the stated goal. Further, group members are involved in the process mostly for show; - Some gaps were observed in terms of activities envisaged by the Human Rights Protection action plan and adequate indicators; - In some cases it is difficult to find a link between certain activities and selected indicators, whereas progress oriented indicators aiming to measure achieved success are almost missing from the plan, which complicates evaluation of report implementation.
2015-07-09 14:15 See more