Appeal of Georgian Young Lawyers Association, Transparency International Georgia and Levan Mikeladze Foundation to Parliament of Georgia for Extension of Period Allocated for Constitutional Draft Review Print E-mail
Wednesday, 25 August 2010

An analysis of political developments throughout the recent history of Georgia demonstrates that it is necessary to select the right political system and form of state governance and to take the interests of different social groups into consideration as much as possible during this process, in order to ensure sustainable and safe development of our country.

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GYLA Publishes its Findings on Amendments and Addendums to the Law on Secondary Education Print E-mail
Thursday, 29 July 2010

On July 2010 the Parliament of Georgia adopted the draft of amendments and addendums to the Law on General Education of Georgia with third hearing, giving bailiffs right to stop and frisk and use force and special device. The Georgian Young Lawyer’s Association gave a negative evaluation to the noted amendments and called on the Parliament to cease review of the draft and continue the process of adoption upon elimination of flaws and immediate threats.

Regrettably, the draft was adopted with third hearing. Due to the utmost importance of the matter, the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association will submit a proposal for harmonizing the law with constitutional and international standards after the Parliament renews its autumn session.

GYLA prepared its findings and legislative initiative concerning the noted amendments (see the attachment), which provides precise frames of performing stop and frisk, imposes additional restrictions on use of force and special device by bailiffs and most importantly, offers procedural guarantees of protection for excessive use of authirty during stop and frisk or use of force.

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GYLA Held a Roundtable with Journalists Print E-mail
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
On July 27 the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association held a meeting with journalists in frames of the project Legal Protection of Media. Purpose of the meeting was to identify legislative flaws that hinder journalists the most from working effectively and can be eliminated through legislative amendments.
Local and regional media representatives attended the meeting and discussed the issues that prove to be most problematic in their activity.
Following issues had been identified:
•    transparency of media owners;
•    financial transparency of media outlets;
•    high amount of court fee and litigations terms that are too lengthy;
•    high fees for copying public information, as well as special regulations for acquiring different types of information, such as excerpts from industrial register, certificates from archive, etc;
•    Public access to court sessions, restriction on photo, video and audio recording;
•    broadcaster licensing issues;
•    inability to acquire a soft-copy of public information;
•    issues of protection of journalists’ labor rights;
•    Artificial barriers that journalists are facing with regard to access to public agencies and public sessions.
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GYLA presented its findings on constitutional amendments Print E-mail
Saturday, 24 July 2010

The Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association considers that

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With GYLA’s Assistance a Lawyer was Ordered to pay back USD 620 to a Citizen for Providing Unqualified Legal Service Print E-mail
Friday, 23 July 2010

In 2009 a citizen M.S. hired a lawyer Sh.Sh. to remove the sequestration order issued in 1996 and paid him USD 620 for the legal service.

The lawyer filed an application in court and sequestration order was removed under the court decision. Upon submission of the enforcement document in the Public Register it was revealed that sequestration orders registered before 1997 had been automatically annulled Under Article 35 of the Law on Public Register (2008); therefore, there was no need of applying to court to remove the sequestration order.

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