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Azerbaijani Appeal Courtâ€™s judge confirms corruption in judiciary

14 June 2007 13:06 (UTC +04:00)

Chairman of Court Board of Appeals Court on Crimes and Administrative Reprimands and future judge of Sumgait Appeals Court Ilham Hasanov told the meeting of parliament standing committee on legal policy and state building. Touching upon the illegitimacies in judiciary systems Judge said there are fair and unfair articles on this issue in the press. Ilham Hasanov confessed bribe-taking cases in courts but stressed it belongs to other fields too.
â€œBribe-taking cases exist at all levels. There are bribery cases even in the states like US. But it must have limits. It is not right to connect bribing only with judgesâ€. Ilham Hasanov Appeal Court has 35 judges and they work very hardly.
â€œ Only in 2006 we considered 12 thousand applications. Judges work very hardly. It is physically impossible to do judgesâ€™ works sometimes. Judges differ from each otherâ€.
Ilham Hasanov said judges were not punished for their false verdict until today. â€œLaw punishes for biased verdict of judges. We could not find any judge punished for false verdictâ€. Ilham Hasanov emphasized the low level of young lawyers recruited by courts.â€ Education also suffers from problems. The education level of young lawyers is too badâ€.
Safa Mirzayev seriously reacted to Ilham Hasanovâ€™s statement. Head of parliament Administration protested to the judgeâ€™s remarks.
â€ We can refer to everything as pretext. But it should not be done for bribing and contradicting law. We should learn good things from the USâ€./APA/