Two- day seminar on “Selected issues of new Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) of Armenia” was organised for judges of Armenia on 25-26 November in the Justice Academy in Yerevan. Certain types of proceedings, evidence and proving as prescribed in the new CPC were presented to the judges and comparative analysis with the current legislation still in force was made.  The participants also benefited from detailed discussions on the compulsory and restraint measures, procedural sanctions, arrest of property as well as from court examination in the first instance and several review proceedings in the Court of Appeal.

The workshop was opened by Gayane Hovhannisyan, Senior Project Officer, Council of Europe Office in Yerevan. The head of the former Working Group Hrayr Ghukasyan and member of the Working Group Davit Melkonyan, that was tasked to prepare the new Criminal Procedure Code, delivered the sessions of the workshop.

The workshop  was organised in cooperation with the Justice Academy 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.