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At the disciplinary hearingof the Board of the Chamber of Advocates, advocates Nina Karapetyants and Arayik Papikyan filed a motion in the CA Board applying to allow them to hold a videofilming. After having returned from the deliberation room, the Board announced the decisionto allow recording only, stating that the applicant’s opinion was not known. Defense lawyer Arayik Papikyan mentioned that he had personally appealed to Judge Tatevik Grigoryan in order to clarify her position on video filming during the trial. “During the hearing,she announced that she was not obliged to answer me. Sh…

The weak economy inherited from the previous Government, the enormous public debt, the scarce resources, the inefficient infrastructures, and the potential real obstacles within the public administration system are some of the challenges that must be overcome by the newly-formed Government. The turnaround in the nation’s public-political life is indeed a remarkable achievement, but not a fully-fledged victory. The previous system’s malpractices and the consequences of inefficient governance need to be eradicated fully. Nonetheless, we are confident that the problems are temporary and can be…

Advocate Arayik Papikyan was today reprimanded by disciplinary case No. 17124. The judge of the Erebuni and Nubarashen Court of general Jurisdiction, Artush Gabrielyan filed a motion in the Chamber of Advocates and informed that last year, on September 6, Arayik Papikyan left the court room without any permission of the presiding judge. It took place during the hearings of “Sasna Tsrer” case. During the hearing Arayik Papikyan announced that he was not authorized to attend the hearing without his client’s presence. He also noted that advocates are subject to an arbitrary approach. Though th…

Advocate Tigran Yegoryan was reprimanded for having left the court room during the trial of “Zhirayr Sefilyan and others” case. Tatevik Grigoryan, the judge of the Court of General Jurisdiction of Ajapnyak and Davitashen Administrative Districts of Yerevan, on October 27, 2017, gave only 30 minutes to Tigran Yegoryan in order he could file a motion of withdrawal, even though he had asked her for three days to do that. The fefender left the court room. The judge considered this to be a disrespectful attitude and filed a motion in the Chamber of Advocates. In disciplinary case No. 17188of the…

The judge of Erebuni and Nubarashen Court of General Jurisdiction, Artush Gabrielyan filed a motion in the Chamber of Advocates. The reason for his application was that on September 7, 2017, defense lawyer Arayik Papikyan left the court room where the trial of “Sasna Tsrer” cases was held. He had tried to file a motion on the withdrawal of the prosecutors in the case, but at the same time he found it important that  other defense lawyers to be present there. Arayik Papikyan also wanted to provide the presence of his client who had been dismissed by the judge’s decision. The parties did…

At the Chamber of Advocates the hearing of the disciplinary sanctions filed against 11 advocates, Arayik Papikyan, Nina Karapetyants, David Gyurjyan, Lusine Sahakyan, Ara Gharagyozyan, Yervand Varosyan, Hrant Gevorgyan, Mushegh Shushanyan, Inessa Petrosyan, Ara Zakaryan, Harutyun Baghdasaryan and Tigran Hayrapetyan, was postponed on May 16. Advocate Inessa Petrosyan did not appear on the hearing because of a grief family matter. A ground for initiating proceedings at the Chamber of Advocates was the decision of judge Artush Gabrielyan of the Court of General Jurisdiction of Erebuni and Nuba…

Today, the Court of General Jurisdiction of Kentron Administrative District of Yerevan the presentation of the advocate’s claim against the decision of the Chamber of Advocates has been continued. Advocate Vahe Grigoryan demands that the court should invalidate the decisions of the Chairman of the Chamber and the Board. The story started after the article had published at the Facebook by advocate Tigran Atanesyan, which was followed with a comment by plaintiff Vahe Grigoryan. The latter wrote the following: “I think that you [addressing to Mr. T. Atanesyan] should take up lessons in the Sch…

Since 2016, a group of active and independent Armenian advocates, involved as defense lawyers in a number of high-profile criminal cases, have been subjected to harassment and been hindered in their professional activities in courts. For thorough information you can view the CSP Statement signed by 39 non-governmental human rights member organizations at http://www.civicsolidarity.org/article/1490/armenia-harassment-lawyers-working-high-profile-cases and “Behind the Glass Wall – the Right to a Fair Trial in the Sasna Tsrer Cases” report of a fact-finding mission to Armenia, at http://www.ci…

As you have all been following the news and developments in Armenia, forced measures were taken to elect Serj Sargsyan as prime minister on 17th of April, 2018, surrounded by barb wires and heavy police presence despite the growing national uprising of thousands of peaceful protesters against him and his corrupt and oligarchic regime. Since then the numbers of peaceful protesters joining the nation-wide civil disobedience declared by opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan and a group of civil society activists are growing each day, and merely in the Republic Square of Yerevan those are more than…