Two workshops on “Selected issues of new Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes of Armenia” were organised for 16 participants, including judges, experts and judicial assistants of the Court of Cassation of Armenia on 11 and 18 November in Mariotte Hotel in Yerevan.

During the first workshop, the participants discussed the operation of the criminal law in time and retroactive effect of the criminal code, as well as types of punishment and its peculiarities. Concluding part of it covered the topics on criminal liability of legal persons and crimes against public security. The second workshop was devoted to the peculiarities of agreement and cooperation proceedings, also proceedings related to the legal persons and trial in absentia. It continued with discussions on general terms for judicial and cassation review, as well as particularities of special and extraordinary review proceedings in the Court of Cassation. The attendees also benefited from detailed discussions on the targeted questions.

The workshops were welcomed by Martina Schmidt and Maxime Longangue, Head and Deputy Head of the Council of Europe Office in Yerevan; as well as by Lilit Tadevosyan, Chairperson of the Court of Cassation. The sessions of the workshop were delivered by the members of the Working Groups, that were tasked to prepare the new legislation and  contributed by Jeremy McBride, the CoE international consultant who carried out expertise of the new Codes in 2017 and 2019.

The workshops were  organised in cooperation with the Court of Cassation of Armenia within the framework of the Project “Supporting the criminal justice reform and harmonising the application of the European standards in Armenia" funded within the European Union and Council of Europe Partnership for Good Governance.