NGOs Address to the President of Georgia to Nominate Nino Gvenetadze for the Position of the Supreme Court Chairperson

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Nongovernmental organizations Human Rights Center, Public Advocacy, Youth for Justice, Human Rights Priority, Media Institute and Union of Lawyer Women address to the President of Georgia with the proposal to consider candidature of Ms. Nino Gvenetadze for the position of the Supreme Court Chairperson and present her candidature to the Parliament of Georgia for further consideration.

NGOs state that they agree with the criteria set by the President for the candidate for the Supreme Court Chairperson. 

“According to these criteria, we believe Nino Gvenetadze is the outstanding candidate with her high qualification in the field of law, successful and long-term experience in the field of justice, with her principality, fairness and impregnability. The most significant is that she is not member of any political party that is another value added to her impartiality and objectivity on such a significant profession. It is noteworthy that Ms. Nino Gvenetadze has worked as a judge at the Supreme Court and has worked as a head of the conference of judges. During her performance on the aforementioned positions, since 2005 she fought for the independence of judiciary authority in Georgia for what she became persecute under the previous government; she was dismissed from the position based on political motives. To express solidarity to the judges disobedient to the faulty judiciary system in 2006 Nino Gvenetadze joined the coalition of NGOs Civil Society for Democratic Georgia, where she fought for independent and fair justice in Georgia together with other civil society groups,” the address of the NGOs read, which will be delivered to the Chancellery of the President today.

Besides, the signatory NGOs note that Nino Gvenetadze enjoys high legitimacy among Georgian society, has relevant professional knowledge and practical experience. Besides, she is Phd in Law and successfully works in the academic field too.