YEREVAN, DECEMBER 26, NOYAN TAPAN. Two chambers of the RA Court of Cassation issued verdicts and decisions on about 3000 cases in 2005. As Arman Mkrtumian, the Chairman of the highest judicial instance on economic and civil cases mentioned at the interview to journalists, the number of court verdicts issued by the chamber increased by trice compared with 2001: 2514 instead of 863 of 2001 what according to the chamber Chairman proves increase of citizens' trust towards the court. For the next year, A.Mkrtumian attached importance to work directed to increase of the role of the Court of Cassation envisaged by the RA Constitutional reforms. According to the constitutional amendments, the Court of Cassation must provide tedious usage of a joint judicial practics and laws. From now on like the Strasbourg European Court on Human Rights, the RA Court of Cassation will itself decide which case to accept for bringing to action: those cases will be examined in which a problem of violating the human rights or judicial precedent exists. Hovhannes Manukian, the Chairman of the RA Court of Cassation, in his turn, attached importance to holding of the second stage of judicial-legal reforms the next year. Within the framework of reforms, particularly, the draft to the Judicial Code is worked out: this will involve principles of court formation the most important for the judicial system and its activity, of a judge's status, ones relating to activity of the Justice Council, main principles of judicial ethics will be fixed in the code. Reforms will be implemented in 3 judicial codes: civil, criminal and administrative.

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