Judges, experts and judicial assistants of the Court of Cassation of Armenia participated in the two-day workshop on “Selected issues of new Criminal (CC) and Criminal Procedure Codes (CPC) of Armenia” organised on 5-6 October in Yerevan.
The objective of the workshop was to introduce the participants to the structural changes and reveal the internal linkage of different provisions of the new CC and CPC and ratio thereof. They also benefited from the informative presentations on recent developments in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) practice regarding the right to carry out cross-examination, trial in absentia, friendly settlement and unilateral declaration as grounds for reopening cases with new circumstances and legitimacy of compulsory sampling from the point of view of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
The participants of the workshop were welcomed by Lilit Tadevosyan, President of the Court of Cassation and Gayane Hovhannisyan, Council of Europe (CoE) Senior Project Officer. Hrayr Ghukasyan and Anna Margaryan, CoE experts and Gohar Simonyan, lawyer from Department for the Execution of the Judgments of the ECtHR of the CoE contributed to the workshop.
The workshop was organised in cooperation with the Court of Cassation of Armenia in the framework of the project “Supporting the criminal justice reform and harmonising the application of the European standards in Armenia" funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe and implemented by the Council of Europe in their Partnership for Good Governance II 2019-2022.
