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    ADVOCATES OF ARMENIA MAY DOUBLE

    Lragir.am
    19 May 06

    The number of Armenian advocates may double in 2006, if all the
    applicants of the Chamber of Advocates pass the first round of exams.

    In Armenia, says Yenok Azaryan, a member of the Chamber of Advocates,
    there are 483 advocates. 382 have applied for membership to the
    chamber.

    In the upcoming months the qualification board will examine the
    documents of the applicants. If these are compliant, in two months
    the applicants will be notified of the day of the examination, and
    on passing the exams they will become members of the Chamber. Yenok
    Azaryan says new advocates were needed to improve the reputation of
    the profession and their qualification. According to him, there are
    advocates who disgrace their profession, act as a second prosecutor
    for a citizen, whereas their job is to defend a person's rights.

    "A weak person cannot defend another person's rights. No process of
    self-filtering is going on. Since we cannot jettison advocates, who
    are disgraced and disgrace others, we should at least try to improve
    the quality by engaging new people," says Yenok Azaryan.

    To develop the sphere and improve the quality, Yenok Azaryan and other
    members of the Chamber of Advocates have set up a new association of
    advocates. The association will have the same goals as the Chamber of
    Advocates had been established. There is implicit dissatisfaction in
    his speech with the activities of the chamber, and although another
    organizer of the association Cromwell Grigoryan says there will be
    no rivalry between the Chamber and the association, obviously there
    is no logical explanation other than rivalry, when the members of
    an association establish another association for the same function
    and aims.
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