On 27 and 28 October the Council of Europe, in partnership with the High School of Justice, is organising a seminar for two groups of City and Appellate Court judges of criminal and civil chambers on “Reopening of Cases on the Basis of Judgment/Decision of the European Court of Human Rights”. The seminars aim to acquaint Georgian judges to the procedure of reopening of cases under the Recommendation No. R (2000) 2 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the re-examination or reopening of certain cases at domestic level following judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. The mentioned recommendation invites Georgia to ensure that its legal system contain the necessary possibilities to achieve, as far as possible, restitutio in integrum, and, in particular, provide adequate possibilities for re-examining cases, including reopening proceedings so that injured parties should be put in the same situation as he or she enjoyed prior to the violation of the Convention.

Seminars will be held by the invited experts: the Head of Section of the Department for the Execution of the ECHR Judgments, Mr. Frédéric Dolt, Legal officer of the same section Mr. Mamuka Longurashvili and the agent of the government of Georgia to the European Court of Human Rights Mr. Levan Meskhoradze - at the premises of the High School of Justice.

The seminars are being held under the framework of the Council of Europe and European Union joint programme “Application of the European Convention on Human Rights and harmonisation of national legislation and judicial practice in Georgia in line with European Standards”.