Lawyer Yerem Sargsyan writes: "You have a whole Ministry of Justice with its minister, deputies, departments, you have a whole State Security Council with its president and full of members, including a respected jurist-scientist, and you make such primitive legal mistakes.
The judge and the lawyers should openly say about those mistakes and not be accused of doing it again, and the rest do not have a single gram of professional dignity to not sign every paper against them... Whoever does not worry about them, I can say that he is one of the best lawyers of the Republic of Armenia.
In the case of Suren Antonyan, the ECtHR stated that all the facts related to partnership and personal ties testify to the very close relationship between Karen Andreasyan and Grigor Minasyan, which went beyond the professional relationship on impartiality.
Given the importance of such a situation, it should have been disclosed at the beginning of the proceedings and assessed taking into account various factors.
"This is an important procedural guarantee, which is necessary to provide adequate guarantees for both objective and subjective impartiality," the ECHR noted, adding that even if K. Andreasyan and G. If there was no direct financial connection between Minasyan, then their friendship and the common business interests of Andreasyan's wife and Minasyan should have been a signal that Andreasyan's impartiality could be questioned.
With that in mind, the SC should have seriously considered Suren Antonyan's motion to withdraw Karen Andreasyan, which did not happen."
