Kobakhidze Meets Judges, Blasts Foreign Sanctions

Kobakhidze Meets Judges, Blasts Foreign Sanctions

Georgian Dream Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze met today, April 4, with members of the Supreme Court and the High Council of Justice of Georgia. The meeting followed the sanctioning of two senior Georgian judges – Mikheil Chinchaladze and Levan Murusidze – by the United Kingdom for their involvement in “serious corruption.” At the meeting, GD Prime Minister Kobakhidze focused largely on the alleged attempts coming from Georgia’s Western partner…

Instead of the court focusing on issues that are very important and problematic for the judiciary, unfortunately, we have been struggling for years to maintain the independence of the court and the Georgian judiciary, said Nino Kadagidze, the Chairperson of the Constitutional Court, at the Supreme Court, where Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze met with judges and members of the High Council of Justice. As Nino Kadagidze noted, in additio…