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"INDEPENDENCE OF THE
JUDICIARY – WAY TO EUROPE
FOR OUR COUNTRY"
"Judges should not be affected by the political changes in the
country, no matter how many times either President of Prime
Minister of the Country is changed, judge should not be and feel as
part of these changes. He / she should be occupied with own work
only and in case a judge has to try a case of the Minister of Finance
or other representative of the government, he /she should do it
objectively. Court should prove now that notwithstanding the fact
that the political leadership has changed – judiciary is inviolable," –
Chairman of the Supreme Court of Georgia, KONSTANTINE
KUBLASHVILI. Below, we offer interview with him.
Mr. Kote, Parliament adopted the law, with third hearing, affecting
High Council of Justice, this Law should change rules for electing
members of the high council of justice and their activities, you had
comments regarding the draft law, that were taken into
consideration by the government at a later stage, do you agree with
the new version of the Law?
_ First of all, I would like to state that major part of the draft law was
acceptable for us from the beginning and remains to be. More than that, we
worked on this draft together with the local NGOs and international
organizations. First stage of this joint work, ended up by adopting significant
changes to the Law on Common Courts in spring 2012. We had to launch the
second stage, we elaborated the package of amendments and since October 1,
2012, new leadership of the Ministry of Justice presented this package. Thus,
there were no novelties in this Law for us, we agreed to that and it was
acceptable for us, except for the part, that was added to the Draft by the new
leadership of the Ministry. We expressed our legal opinion against these very
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