The general description of the judicial review in the new criminal procedure code of the Republic of Armenia

Gagik Ghazinyan

doi:10.21638/spbu14.2025.113

Authors

Gagik Ghazinyan Yerevan State University https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8541-4672

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu14.2025.113

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the general characteristics of the institution of judicial review in the new Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia (RA). This Code entered into force on July 1, 2022. The relevant regulations of the new and former Criminal Procedure Codes of the Republic of Armenia, adopted on July 1, 1998, were subjected to a comparative legal analysis. The latest developments were outlined, and their necessity was presented. The new structures of judicial review and the need to incorporate them into the new RA Criminal Procedure Code were the subject of a detailed analysis. Alongside the new regulations, some theoretical and practical issues related to them were discussed. Particularly, the goals of each of the review structures, the relevant procedural regulations conditioned by them, have been made the subject of a detailed discussion, based on the constitutional status and mission of the courts conducting the review and the latest developments in this regard. The practical issues related to the legislative regulations of the grounds for cassation review have been thoroughly analyzed. One of the general conditions of judicial review such as the issue of the limits of review has been discussed, the powers of the court conducting the review in the case of a special review, and the issues of the judicial acts became legally binding have been highlighted.

Keywords:

review structure, review, cassation, special review, review powers, review limits

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