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‘Every judge is dependent from someone to certain extent and independent from someone. The issue is first of all to increase the internal independence of the judge so that he/she would not feel absolutely independent when handing in the sentence, as well as from the law and requirements of the legislation, but would feel limited by the law and its requirements’ noted Deputy Minister of Justice Aram Orbelyan.

According to him the judge must have an internal independence, by which he will be able to reject the person that refers to him, whether they are the lawyers of the parties or any other people. By the words of the Deputy Minister there are number of functioning mechanisms according to which the judge must report about any intervention to the Ethics Committee.

‘Not reporting is a ground to dismiss him/her from the position. Unfortunately, there is no reporting yet’ stated Aram Orbelyan adding that it does not mean there is no desire for intervention.
The mechanisms need to be continued. According to A. Orbelyan the reforms being carried out in the judicial sector are aimed at improving the quality of judges.

‘It does not mean that the quality of our judges is low. The quality requirements increase with time. If in 1995-1997 it was enough to present one page judgment and write ‘I made the judgment’, today it is not enough any more. Today the judgment has to be reasoned, the legal norms, factual circumstances, which served basis for the judgment need to be indicated’ concluded the Deputy Minister.