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News
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Taboo on scientific speech
The human rights non-governmental organization Europe in Law Association is gravely concerned about the current practice of stifling scientific speech existing in certain academic circles of Armenia, which leads to the barring and stereotyping of scientific thought. A vivid example of the aforementioned is the refusal to publish the article written by Gor Hovhannisyan, PhD candidate at the Humboldt University in Germany, in the academic journal Public Administration of the RA Academy of Public Administration. The article is about third-party effect of fundamental rights, i.e. the effect of fundamental rights between private indivi...
01. 27. 2012 -
What would be the Defense Resorted to by the Great Men of the State in the Absence of Defamation Law
In the United Kingdom defamation law emerged in the XI c. even before the invention of printing. It is written in the Leviticus, ‘Thou shalt not go up and down as a tale-bearer among the people’. The priests, that multifunctional class of the Middle Ages, first introduced defamation as a criminal offence to punish the inhabitants of the village Murdoch by setting them into stocks for breaching this biblical commandment. Slander was a criminal offence from the very beginning. The first statute was adopted in 1275 to stipulate the crime of scandalum magnatum to protect ‘the great men of the realm.’ Rather than defending themselves ...
12. 09. 2011 -
WHEN FACTS ARE TRUE OR REASONABLY PUBLISHED
If you are a journalist (editor, publisher or owner of a mass media outlet) you are not safeguarded against lawsuits for compensation for damage caused to someone’s honour, dignity or reputation. They are a veritable headache and they usually reach you on those nice winter days when sitting in your editorial office you admire the dancing snowflakes, softly humming the Snow Storm by Sviridov. Isn’t that true? Fine, perhaps you ar in the habit of getting them on most usual days but this is not what matters. When you learn of such a lawsuit against yourself, and after you apply for legal assistance (preferably from a lawyer who has some...
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Ijevan Mayor’s Office v The Investigative Journalists: The Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights is Still a ‘Voice in a Desert’
On 25 January 2001, the Republic of Armenia became a full member of the Council of Europe, which, among other things, implied a number of obligations before this organization, including the signing of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) at the time of being granted membership and ratification of the ECHR within one year of membership. Armenia ratified the ECHR on 26 April 2002. In conformity with Article 46(1) of the ECHR, ‘the High Contracting Parties undertake to implement the final judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on cases in which they are a party.’ In addition to this, Paragraph 3 of Rec(20...
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The 15 November Decision of the Constitutional Court: Time for Non-Conceptualized Concepts
On 15 November 2011 the RA Constitutional Court pronounced its much awaited decision in response to the application of the RA Human Rights Defender dated 13 October 2011 on the verification of the constitutionality of Article 1087.1 of the RA Civil Code. The decision was adopted in as much haste as was the adoption of the notorious May 2010 legislative amendments. Hence, the inadequate level of research into a number of legal concepts. The Constitutional Court, thus, adopted a 37-page document, which apart from a couple of positive clarifications, contains a number of uncertain definitions and wordings, which, if taken into account,...
11. 21. 2011 -
Statement
VIENNA, 10 November 2011 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, in a letter to Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian expressed concern today over the growing number of libel suits filed against Armenia’s news outlets, and called upon the authorities to further reform the legislation to adequately protect the media in civil defamation cases. “I welcomed decriminalization of defamation in Armenia in May 2010 as a significant step toward ensuring a media-friendly environment. Regretfully since then, almost 30 civil defamation lawsuits have been brought against newspapers, including 11 this yea...
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Press Release
Lawyers and judges are trained on freedom of expression in Armenia YEREVAN, 1 November 2011 –– The two workshops for legal counsel and judges aimed to promote freedom of expression in Armenia kicked off today in Yerevan. The event is organized by Europe in Law Association (ELA) non-governmental organization with the support of the OSCE Office in Yerevan, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, the US Embassy in Armenia, and the Armenian Representative Office of American Bar Association CEELI Inc. The workshops are conducted by Gavin Millar, Queen’s Counsel from Doughty Street Chambers (UK) and Boyko Boev, Senior ...
09. 21. 2011
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