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Report on Kutaisi City and Appeal Courts

23.01.2023
Research
The Report on Kutaisi City and Appeal Courts includes the following issues: 

Independence Guarantees for Individual Judges: Assignment, Promotion and Secondment of Judges; Number of Judges and assignment of Judges in Kutaisi City and Appeal Courts; Secondment of a Judge; Appointment/promotion without Competition; Specialization of Judges Disciplinary Proceedings.

Court Efficiency Standard: The Rate of Considered Cases Within a Year in Kutaisi City Court and Delayed Cases; Optimal Number of Court Staff and Implementation of Administrative Functions of Court Chairpersons; Functions and Salary of the Office Staff; Salary; Job Description; Court Manager; Assistant to the Judge and Secretary of Court Session.

Transparency standards on the example of Kutaisi City Court: Information Posted on the Court Website; Availability of Court Decisions on the Website; Provision of Public Information. 

Attached file:

Interview with Lela Kalandadze
Use of circumstantial evidence in sentencing - international standards
The legal record of rape is still incomplete
The possibility of using indirect evidence in a guilty verdict
Illegal elections
Processes of those arrested at the rally
People fighting against the anti-Western regime remain imprisioned
Court sessions of those arrested at the rally
The Klan prosecutes those illegally detained
The Judiciary - a body that critically needs to increase the level of transparency (Part I)
Prolonged Cases in the Courts
Repressions against peaceful demonstrators
Topics discussed by the HCoJ in November
Protest against rigged elections
Demarche of employees of the office of the ombudsm
Statement of Georgian non-governmental organizations
Bonuses for the Court Clan
Over half a million extra to the judges
Over half a million additions to the judges
In November, judges will receive a total of more than half a million Lari as an additional allowance