Project Title:Project to Support the Independence and Transparency of the Constitutional Court

Donor Organization: The project is implemented with the financial assistance of Open Society – Georgia Foundation

Project Number: HR/01/17-20482

Project Budget: USD 32,450

Project Duration: March 9, 2017 – March 31, 2018

Project Description and Goals

 
In recent years, the number of cases in the Constitutional Court with significant public and political interest (the so-called high profile cases) has increased, which sharply increased the level of public interest towards the work of the Constitutional Court as well as political pressure on it. On June 3, 2016, the Georgian Parliament adopted a package of legislative amendments that was negatively regarded by many organizations and challenged inthe Constitutional Court, which declared many of its parts as unconstitutional. The amendments significantly decreased the effectiveness of the Constitutional Court and created the risk of paralyzing it.

The shortcomings and vagueness of the general legislation and internal legal acts regulating the work of the Constitutional Court, coupled with the lack of information about the Court’s activities allowed political actors to politicize  constitutional justice.

The goal of the project is to initiate and support a reform of the Constitutional Court, promote the Court’s transparency, effectiveness and independence, evaluate its work and increase public awareness about the Court’s activities. 

Target Audience

The draft law elaborated within framework of the project will be sent to the Parliament and the Constitutional Court.

Recommendations developed as a result of the evaluation will be used to improve the work of the Constitutional Court. The results of this research and its recommendations will be made available to professional circles as well as the wider audience.    

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