On 21 and 22 June 2016, the Council of Europe, in cooperation with the High School of Justice, Georgia, organised a seminar for two groups of judges and assistant judges of criminal and civil chambers on the Reopening of Cases on the Basis of Judgment/Decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

According to the Recommendation No. R (2000) 2 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the re-examination or reopening of certain cases at domestic level following judgments of the ECtHR, Georgia is recommended to  ensure that its legal system contains the necessary possibilities to achieve, as far as possible, restitutio in integrum. In particular, it is recommended to provide adequate possibilities for re-examining cases, including reopening proceedings so that injured parties should be put in the same situation as he or she enjoyed prior to the violation of the Convention.

As a result, 40 judges and assistant judges have improved their knowledge on the reopening or re-investigating of the cases at the national level.

The training took place within Project "Application of the European Convention of Human Rights and hamornisation of national legislation and judicial practice in Georgia in line with European Standards", which is funded through the EU-CoE Programmatic Cooperation Framework for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus.