Strengthening the independence and efficiency of justice

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Graduation of the ‘Admissibility of Evidence in Criminal Proceedings’ course in Armenia

On 27 April 2017, Deputy Head of the Council of Europe Office in Yerevan, Ms Loreta VIOIU, awarded certificates to 15 Armenian legal professionals who successfully completed the Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals (HELP) distance-learning course on “Admissibility of Evidence in Criminal Proceedings”. The choice of the course made it possible to link it to the manual on the same subject published by the Council of Europe in 2016 and thus maximise the effect of this activity, since there is a close link between implementing the human rights standards related to evidence and reducing occurrence of ill-treatment during criminal investigations. Equal numbers of prosecutors, investigators and advocates participated in the pilot HELP course. The average score obtained by the participants is 99.69 percent.

The ceremony was attended by representatives of the Justice Academy, Investigative Committee, Prosecution office and Chamber of Advocates. In their welcoming addresses all of them highly valued the cooperation with the Council of Europe, highlighted the importance of HELP courses for Armenian legal professionals and stressed that the promotion of human rights is a commitment undertaken by all member states when joining the Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

The activity was organised within the framework of the Project “Supporting the criminal justice reform and combating ill-treatment and impunity in Armenia”, funded within the European Union and the Council of Europe programme Partnership for Good Governance.

The HELP programme supports the Council of Europe member states in implementing the ECHR at the national level. HELP is a network of national training institutions for legal professionals of the 47 member states. It is also a methodology and online free platform, with both self-learning resources and distance-learning courses.

Yerevan 28 April 2017
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Specific objective 1: strengthen the independence and efficiency of the judiciary.

Indicators:

  • Increase in the degree of compliance of national legislations and regulations concerning the composition, role and mandate of self-governing bodies, in corresponding target countries, with European standards and Council of Europe recommendations.
  • Improved training methodology and curricula of judicial training institutions in corresponding target countries.
  • Improved time management and decrease in volume of court backlogs; strengthened national capacity to assess the performance of court systems in corresponding target countries.   

 

Specific objective 2: strengthen the role of courts in delivering user-oriented justice.

Indicator: enhanced quality of judicial services in line with European standards through the practical application of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice tools in corresponding target countries.

 

Specific objective 3: improve the quality of the profession of lawyer (advocate).

Indicators:

  • Increased compliance of national legislations and regulations concerning the mandate and functioning of Bar Associations, in corresponding target countries, with European standards and Council of Europe recommendations.
  • Training institutions in corresponding target countries put in place a short-term and long-term strategy of development, a developed system of course accreditation, and coherent and comprehensive training programmes with coherent teaching methodology.