WB: Upmost Attention to Judicial Legal Reforms in Europe, CenAsia

UPMOST ATTENTION IS NECESSARY FOR JUDICIAL LEGAL REFORMS IN EUROPE AND
CENTRAL ASIA, WORLD BANK MENTIONS

YEREVAN, JUNE 21, NOYAN TAPAN. There is much to do in the direction of
creating stable stimula for increasing the effecience of the judicial
system, improving the usage and judges’ being account in the most part
of the Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia states. This is
mentioned in the report “Judicial Legal Systems of Transitional
Economies: Estimating Past, Facing Future.” It will be presented by
the World Bank and the National Bank of Poland during a seminar on the
theme “Usage of Agreements and Judicial Legal Systems of Central and
Eastern Europe” to be organized in Warsaw on June 21-22. The process
of reforms of legal institutions of transitional states since 1990 is
presented in the report, and the present state of those institutions
is estimated. The data fixed in the report are based on the results of
surveys held among citizens, lawyers and heads of enteprises in the
whole region. According to the report, only the one fourth part of
questioned heads finds that courts are objective or honest. In
countries like Albania, Kyrghyzstan, Moldova and Russia, a less part
of questioned expressed such an opinion. It is mentioned that In
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and the Ukraine, among other reforms,
market reforms came to the fore but judicial legal systems are not
completed yet. According to the report, as a step aimed to increase of
transparity, Armenia and Georgia take steps in the direction of
improvement of leakage of legal information. Besides, Albania,
Armenia, Khorvatia and Macedonia are classified among those states
which contribute corresponding systems for improvement of judicial
control and effecience in courts and supporting judgies with
information technologies.