Representatives of the “Armenian Lawyers Association” non-governmental organisation, members of the State and Legal Committee of the Public Council Mr. Artyom Mesropyan, and Lawyer/Expert of the ALA Ms Lusine Nalbandyan held a working meeting at the Constitutional Court. Mr. Edgar Ghazaryan, CC Chief of Staff and staff members attended the meeting as well.
During the meeting the parties discussed the Medium Term Expenditure Framework for 2020-2022 and the Applications for Budget Financing for 2020 of CC, as well as presented observation for making changes in the program activities. Particularly, mentioned that the use of innovative electronic tools, the development of analytical tools aimed at revealing the errors of judicial practice will enable the define topics of retraining for judges on the basis of the mistakes and gaps in practice. Considering that the requirements for scientific criteria, professional skills and professionalism towards CC judges are higher, it was suggested that one of the CC’s strategic directions is to train judges of different judicial instances. The experts of the Armenian Lawyers’ Association expressed their readiness to assist in incorporating all the necessary proposals in the budget application.
It was decided that the experts would submit a package of proposals including the appropriate justifications that would be included in the budget proposal as appropriate.
