“My position was not that initiating disciplinary proceedings or subjecting them to disciplinary responsibility was the issue of pressuring the judge. The problem is what disciplinary proceedings you initiate, what purpose you initiate, what quality you initiate, and what decision you make to discipline,” Minister of Justice Karen Andreasyan said at a press conference in the government press hall, referring to the fact that as the human rights defender, he used to consider such a function a means of oppressing judges.
“I can say that the issue I raised then is not relevant today, because today the Supreme Judicial Council, at least with this staff and at this time, has started conducting fairly fair, transparent examinations. In the past, those examinations were not public. Now, great legislative progress has been made, and everyone can watch how fair the judges are,” said Andreasyan.
According to him, everyone is talking about cleaning the judicial system, and the only real mechanism operating today is the means of disciplinary responsibility. “It is legal, it is fair, it is just, and I think that the disciplinary proceedings are even fewer. The means of fair responsibility obtained through disciplinary proceedings against certain unscrupulous judges were even fewer. But thanks to Mr. Badasyan’s work, this gradual purification has started in the judicial system.”
Karen Andreasyan said that he would meet with representatives of NGOs working on judicial reform, the BDK, and other law enforcement agencies to get the fairest and best model for removing bad judges. “And everyone, even those who are dissatisfied with some regulations, says that the judicial system needs such cleaning.”
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