CEPEJ: Country profile: AZERBAIJAN

Country profile: AZERBAIJAN

CEPEJ Member		National Correspondent
Ramin GURBANOV Chief of reforms division General department of Organization and Supervision Ministry of Justice 1 Inshaa- tchilar Avenue BAKU, AZ 1073 +99 45 02 14 0444 +99 41 24 30 1177 ramingurbanov@justice.gov.az		Ramin GURBANOV Chief of reforms division General department of Organization and Supervision Ministry of Justice 1 Inshaa- tchilar Avenue BAKU, AZ 1073 +99 45 02 14 0444 +99 41 24 30 1177 ramingurbanov@justice.gov.az

Member of the Lisbon Network		Pilot Courts
		Mr Aladdin JAFAROV President of Yasamal District Court Member of the Judicial-Legal Council Yasamal District Court of Baku Inshaatchilar ave. 5 Baku, Azerbaijan Aladdin.jafarov@court.az; yasamal@court.az Organisation Chart of the Court Tofig PASHAYEV President of the Court Baku city Narimanov District Court tofig.pashayev@court.az

Evaluation Exercise
AZERBAIJAN: Evaluation exercise - 2012 Edition AZERBAIJAN: Evaluation exercise - 2010 Edition AZERBAIJAN: Evaluation exercise - 2008 Edition AZERBAIJAN: Evaluation exercise - 2006 Edition AZERBAIJAN: Pilot scheme

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Links to relevant Institutions		Resources
Ministry of Justice		Legal texts (Codes, laws, regulations etc.) www.justice.gov.az www.e-qanun.gov.az Case-law of the higher court/s www.supremecourt.gov.az

Recent developments in the judicial field
Report on “Efficient Judicial Systems in five Eastern Partnership countries” (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine) - March 2013 Working visit from the CEPEJ experts in Azerbaijan: The CEPEJ experts on the evaluation of judicial systems made a study visit to the Azerbaijan authorities from 30 to 31 May 2012, in the framework of the peer’s evaluation process on data collecting systems. Link to the picture gallery Reform of the judiciary in Azerbaijan: Release from the "Judicial Legal Council" of 7 February 2012 Report requested by the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan - Assessment of policy and procedures for the selection of judges in Azerbaijan (January 2012) - CEPEJ-COOP(2011)1 Reform of the judiciary in Azerbaijan: Release from the "Judicial Legal Council" of 20 December 2011 The process of judicial reform is continuing: increase in the number of judges, new committee for selecting judges. Presidential Decree on development of Institution of Justice

Organisational chart of the system of justice
Judicial system