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The purpose of the legislative initiative is to ensure the organizations of the re-examination of judicial acts carried out by the cases on the anti-corruption civil and corruption crimes by the professional Anti-Corruption Court of Appeal. The RA Deputy Minister of Justice Armenuhi Harutyunyan said at the December 16 RA NA extraordinary session, presenting the draft law on Amending the Constitutional Law the RA Judicial Code and the package of the enclosed presented draft laws.

The key rapporteur informed that the Government received numerous proposals from Arpine Davoyan, which were jointly debated and accepted. Those proposals with new edition were also included in the package if drafts under debate.

The Anti-Corruption Court as a new professional court was formed with a legislative package passed on April 14, 2021. As a result of the package of the draft laws passed in February 2022, to ensure effective examination on anti-corruption cases, the Anti-Corruption Chamber of the Court of Appeal was created.

The creation of the Anti-Corruption Court of Appeal will be ensured with the proposing legislative package with the composition of the criminal and civil judges examining corruption crimes. According to Armenuhi Harutyunyan, a necessity will not rise for increasing the number of the new judges with amendments. It is proposed to set the term of entering them into force with the transitional provisions in connection with the relations aimed at the creation of the Anti-Corruption Court of Appeal January 1, 2024, which is conditioned by the imperative of decently providing the work aimed at the formation of the court.

Briefly touching upon the proposing amendments, the key rapporteur emphasized that new powers will be reserved to the Chairmen of the courts, according to which, an opportunity will be created to carry out monitoring by the order established by the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) towards preserving the reasonable terms of the examination of the cases in the courts.

To overcome the load of the Court of the General Jurisdiction of the First Instance, it was also proposed to separate the civil and criminal courts of the general jurisdiction of the city of Yerevan.

Certain amendments were proposed on the order of including in the list of the contenders of the candidates for the judges, too: It is designed to ensure an opportunity of including persons with at least 8-year experience of professional work during the last 10 years.

Briefly presenting the legislative package the co-rapporteur Arpine Davoyan noted that the proposals had been rather voluminous: as a result of joint debates positive solutions were proposed.

In her final speech Armenuhi Harutyunyan thanked Arpine Davoyan for extensive and burdensome work: for the valuable recommendation presented in essentially facilitating the load of the judicial system.