On February 8, during the convened regular sittings the National Assembly debated in the second reading the draft law on Making Amendments and Addendum to the Constitutional Law the RA Judicial Code with the enclosed legislative package.
The RA Deputy Minister of Justice Grigor Minasyan presented the initiative. The Deputy Minister has informed that the package envisages to create two independent, Civil and Administrative Chambers with separate specializations by eliminating the Civil and Administrative Chambers of the Court of Appeal. The issues related to the formation of the Civil and Administrative Chambers of the Court of Appeal and providing normal activity are regulated. It is also designed to introduce flexible mechanisms of replenishing of the judges’ candidates and the candidates’ lists subject to advancement, without restriction of the quantity subject to the terms’ replenishing.
After passing the package in the first reading it was revised, and the transitional provisions were specified.
The NA Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs endorsed the package of draft laws.