Support to modernisation of court management in Georgia
March 2023 – February 2026
Support to modernisation of court management in Georgia
The project is funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe and implemented by the Council of Europe in their Partnership for Good Governance III (2023-2027). An earlier phase of this programme (January 2020 - February 2023) was supported by the European Union.
Context and objectives of the project
The project “Support to modernisation of court management in Georgia” will assist the improvement of the efficiency of the Georgian judicial system, notably in reducing backlogs and length of proceedings, facilitating the modernisation of court management including through implementation of new cyber justice tools, building the capacity of justice professionals, as well as increasing judges' referrals to mediation and improving data collection of mediation cases based on the CEPEJ Mediation Development Toolkit.
The project will support further application of European standards and will contribute to the implementation Georgian Strategy and Action Plan on Judiciary adopted in October 2022, and requirements stemming from Georgia’s candidacy for membership of the European Union.
Main activities
- Individual court coaching projects to improve court performance and reduce backlog
- Recommendations to introducing a tool to fighting backlogs
- Recommendations on the optimisation of the workload of judges and court staff
- Support to conducting court users’ satisfaction surveys in pilot courts
- Capacity building activities to improve the collection, processing and analysis of data on the functioning of the judicial system and judicial statistics according to the CEPEJ methodology (in coordination with the regional project Justice Dashboard EaP)
- Introducing specific training modules on the efficiency and quality of justice
- Organising Managers' Forums on selected topics
- Capacity building activities for judges on referral to mediation based on relevant CEPEJ tools
Project beneficiaries and stakeholders
Court Users, High Council of Justice, Courts, High School of Justice, Independent Inspector of the High Council of Justice, judges, court staff, Mediators’ Association.
Council of Europe - Strasbourg
Jovana Matic
Project coordinator
+33 (0)3 90 21 63 68
Council of Europe office in Tbilissi (Georgia)
Ushangi Bakhtadze
Project manager
Gvantsa Gedenidze
Project assistant
Translated CEPEJ documents
- Case weighting in judicial systems - CEPEJ Studies No. 28 (2020)
- Toolkit for the implementation of the Guidelines on Cyberjustice (CEPEJ(2019)7)
- European Ethical Charter on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Judicial Systems and their environment (2018)
- Guidelines on how to drive change towards Cyberjustice (CEPEJ(2016)13)
- Declaration on lessons learnt and Challenges faced by the judiciary during and after the Covid-19 Pandemic
- Good practice guide on Structural measures to improve the functioning of civil and administrative justice in addition to the effective domestic remedies required by Article 13 of the ECHR (CEPEJ(2016)14)
- Handbook for conducting satisfaction surveys aimed at Court users in Council of Europe's member States (CEPEJ(2016)15)
- Measuring the quality of justice (CEPEJ(2016)12
- Implementation guide "Towards European timeframes for judicial proceedings" (CEPEJ(2016)5)
- Guidelines of the CEPEJ SATURN Centre for judicial time management – comments and implementation examples (CEPEJ-SATURN(2015)2)
- Guidelines on the Creation of Judicial Maps to Support Access to Justice within a Quality Judicial System (CEPEJ(2013)7Rev)
- CEPEJ Guidelines on judicial statistics (GOJUST) (CEPEJ(2008)11
- Saturn guidelines for judicial time management (CEPEJ(2008)8)
- European judicial systems - Edition 2008 (data 2006) : Overview
- Compendium of “best practices” on time management of judicial proceedings (CEPEJ(2006)13
CEPEJ capacity building and awareness raising activities on mediation in Georgia
From 12 to 13 July 2024, CEPEJ organised in cooperation with the High School of Justice of Georgia a Training of Trainers focused on judicial referral to mediation based on CEPEJ Mediation Development Toolkit and the module on mediation of the new HELP course “Quality of Justice – the work of the...
CEPEJ workshop on piloting its Backlog reduction tool in Batumi City Court (Georgia)
As part of its court coaching programme in Georgian courts, the CEPEJ conducted from 16 to 17 May 2024 a workshop to present and put in practice its backlog reduction tool in Batumi City Court. Statistical analyses carried out beforehand at the court enabled the experts to give a contextualised...
Enhancing Judicial Data Management in Georgia: training and preparation of a methodology for statisticians
From November 17 to 19, 2023, the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) organised a training session for court statisticians involved in data collection in Georgian courts. This training was an occasion to present all the issues involved in data collection (ways to harmonize,...
Second visit of CEPEJ experts to pilot courts within the court coaching programme in Georgia
The court coaching programme of European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) continues from 25 to 28 September 2023 with the 2nd visit to the Supreme Court of Georgia and the Rustavi Municipal Court, as well as with the 1st visit to two other pilot courts: the Zugdidi District Court...
Launch of CEPEJ court coaching programme in pilot courts in Georgia
The court coaching programme of European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) organised in the framework of the project “Support to modernisation of court management in Georgia” will begin with the experts visit from 23 to 25 May 2023 to two pilot courts: the Supreme Court of Georgia...
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