Five two-day training seminars on "Selected issues of new Criminal (CC) and Criminal Procedure Codes (CPC) of Armenia" were organised for 125 investigators of Armenia from April till June 2022 in the Justice Academy in Yerevan.
During the first half of the seminars, the participants learnt about the principles of criminal law and its retrospectivity that will significantly help them to correctly classify the crimes either under the current or new CC when the later enters into force in July 2022. The investigators also benefited from detailed discussion on the illegal taking and other types of property crimes as well as crimes against the person.
The second day of the seminars was devoted to the selected issues of the new CPC. Particularly, the investigators were presented with the elaborated scope of the compulsory measures, such as arrest, detention, house arrest and administrative supervision. Moreover, principles of the criminal proceedings, public and private participants in the proceedings, as well as the evidentiary actions were covered as well. Concrete examples and short case-studies were prepared for each topic of the seminars that greatly facilitated the communication among the participants and the trainers.
The training seminars were opened by Sergrey Arakelyan, Rector of the Justice Academy.
The seminars were organised in co-operation with the Justice Academy of the Republic 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.
