Public Registry is ordered to register the ownership right of I.B over the land located close to the occupation line

Resident of Ditsi village, Gori municipality, started the court dispute over the land, which is not located in the occupied zone, in 2018. The district and appellate courts confirmed that the land was not in the occupied territory. The Public Registry did not appeal the rulings of the two instances of the court in the Supreme Court that means I.B will be able to register his ownership right over the land now. 

In June 2019, the Tbilisi Appellate Court did not satisfy the claim of the National Agency of the Public Registry and upheld the decision of the Gori District Court, where, based on the HRC appeal, the court ordered the NAPR to register the ownership right of I.B over the land located close to the occupation line. The NAPR did not appeal the cassation court and consequently the ruling of the Appellate Court shall be enforced. 

The court dispute started after the NAPR refused I.B to register ownership right over the land, claiming that it was located in the occupied territory. I.B sent several letters to the NAPR to clarify that his plot was located in the Georgia-controlled territory but the Agency ignored the evidence provided by the applicant. In the end, HRC appealed the Gori District Court to claim the property rights of I.B and the dispute then continued in the Appellate Court. 

Human Rights Center defended legal interests of I.B in the court. 

Human Rights Center