The Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) responds to the judgment of conviction passed by Besik Bugianishvili, a judge of the Criminal Panel of the Tbilisi City Court, in the so-called “cable case” of detained high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Defense and believes that the verdict is unfair, unlawful, and unsubstantiated.
2016-05-16 13:20 See moreThe Coalition for an Independent and Transparent Judiciary is deeply concerned by the legislative amendments on Constitutional Court adopted by the Parliament. The Coalition considers that the decision of the Parliament is directed not only against the current members of the Constitutional Court and/or specific judges, but these actions intend to paralyze the work of the Constitutional Court and diminish its important role thereby jeopardizing the fundamental values of modern democratic state such as the rule of law, recognition and protection of human rights, separation of powers and providing adequate, effective and impartial constitutional justice.
2016-05-14 14:29 See moreGYLA has appealed to the Constitutional Court on behalf of the Supreme Religious Administration of All Muslims of Georgia. The appellant appeals against the Ordinance of the Government of Georgia of 27 October 2014 on partial compensation for damages caused to the Muslim, Jewish, Armenian and Roman-Catholic communities during the Soviet Union.
2016-05-04 11:03 See moreAs we know cadastral boundary adjustments of Tbilisi Botanical garden were made based on the “Finservice XXI” LTD request of April 12, 2016, based on which the territories were exchanged between the company and Botanical Garden.
2016-04-28 13:56 See moreTbilisi - Nino Gvenetadze, Chief Justice of Georgia, and David Stonehill, USAID’s Democracy and Governance Office Director, opened the presentation of High Council of Justice monitoring findings On April 25, 2015. Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association and Transparency International - Georgia presented High Council of Justice Monitoring Report #4. The report analyses the legislation and normative base and the activities of the Council on the selection/appointment of judges, transfer of judges, transparency of the work of the Council, disciplinary proceedings against judges, etc.
2016-04-25 15:48 See moreWe, the signatory organizations of the appeal, would like to respond to the public statements made recently by the members of the Auditorium 115 student movement regarding the possible pressure on their relatives and family members following their active participation in the students’ protests.
2016-04-22 15:07 See moreOn April 15, 2016, Tbilisi City Court satisfied the motions of prosecutors of Prosecutorial Oversight Division of Investigation Unit of the Chief Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia regarding imposing pre-trial detention to Sulkhan Tsuladze, one of users of Tbilisi Forum. On April 20, 2016 Tbilisi Appeal Court upheld a ruling by the Tbilisi City Court on pre-trial detention.
2016-04-22 12:04 See moreMarch 16, 2016, Ekaterine Mishveladze was at the Prosecutor General’s Office accompanied by a lawyer. Ekaterine Mishveladze provided the Prosecutor’s Office the information concerning the fact of releasing information regarding private lives.
2016-04-21 17:19 See moreApril 18, 2016, media reported that residential space in Batumi, Khimshiashvili street, with total 125 m², owned by Batumi Municipality, will be sold to Merab Turava, the Judge of the Constitutional Court of Georgia. According to the information, Batumi self-government will give the property of municipality to the State free of charge that will be sold to the Judge of the Constitutional Court for a symbolic price.
2016-04-18 18:43 See more2016 parliamentary elections will be held on October 8. In terms of election legislation there still are certain flaws and issues that require to be better regulated in order to ensure equal and fair election environment.
2016-04-14 10:09 See more