Ameria CJSC has finished its program to monitor Armenia's judiciary system.
While presenting the results in Tsaghkadzor on Wednesday the company's representative David Sargsyan said that the objective of the program was to create a single judicial monitoring system, which will allow concerned parties - both governmental and private - to see how effective the local courts are, what deficiencies they have and what reforms they need.
Sargsyan explained that the results of the surveys regularly conducted in the field cannot be compared as each survey applies its own method. "Single methodology will help us to see how efficient, transparent and easy to access our courts are and will give us the best picture of the system as a whole," Sargsyan said.
Senior specialists of Ameria Tigran Grigoryan said that the program consisted of six stages. "We first studied the international experience, then we organized a workshop and exchanged views, then we developed a new methodology, familiarized our lawyers with it and put it into practice. And at the final stage we held a workshop to sum up the results," Grigoryan said.
The program was launched in 2012. It was ordered by the Judicial Program Office of the Justice Ministry of Armenia and financed by the World Bank.