50 graduates of the School of Advocates of RA on the 3-rd of December got advocate’s activity licenses.

“I solemnly swear to perform the advocate’s duties honestly and conscientiously, to keep the attorney secrets, to defend the rights of constituents, their freedoms and interests, being guided by the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, the laws and the advocate’s code of behavior”, - this kind of solemn oath have the future advocates given before the Bar of the Chamber.
The oath was followed by the Bar’s unanimous satisfaction of the candidates’ applications and the granting of licenses.  

The Chairman of the Chamber of Advocates Ara Zohrabyan on greeting the present ones noted that from now on they can de jure turn to them as colleague-advocates. “All that has been succeeded by advocates of all generations and fixed as the achievement of the community, from now on belongs  to you as well. Develop the good traditions of the community and struggle against the negative effects that have appeared in our community. Today we can also publicly declare, that the advocates who have passed the School of Advocates acknowledge clearly the role and meaning of communal and individual struggle against corruption”.    Ara Zohrabyan thanked the headmaster of the School of Advocates Simon Babayan and the staff, the members of the council of the School of Advocates: Nikolay Hakobyan, Lernik Hovhannisyan, Heriknaz Tigranyan, Lyudvik Davtyan, Artak Asatryan, the members of the qualification committee of the Chamber of Advocates: Sedrak Asatryan, Hunan Ter-Vardanyan, Kristina Sardaryan, Mane Karapetyan, Garnik Safaryan and Elizaveta Danielyan, the staff of the Chamber of Advocates, by whose efforts had been organized and carried out  the teaching process and the qualification examinations. He also especially thanked the teaching staff of the School of Advocates of RA.  

The Chairman of the Chamber wished the future advocates a successful path and luck in further initiatives.
The headmaster of the School of Advocates Simon Babayan on congratulating the graduates noted that the School by its professional training does not inferior to equal schools working worldwide. “We have to improve practical lessons in our school. We are moving forward and receive that very result that we have today. Let us hope, that we already as colleagues will have the chance to cooperate”, - he concluded.  

The member of the Bar Karen Mejlumyan in his congratulating speech emphasizes the necessity of confrontation in advocate’s formation and competition. He noted that confidence in an advocate is attained by means of his work and years of experience.     
With a speech of gratitude came out graduates Edgar Hakobyan, Marine Mirijanyan and Nshan Matevosyan. On appealing to the importance of knowledge they had attained from School, and the long-standing wish to become an advocate the young emphasized especially the role of practical work,   that the School had enabled them with during the tutorial process.  Nshan Matevosyan noted: “On saying “advocate” we have to imagine a clever individual, who is to be diversified, with powerful logic and strong analytical skills, who respects justice, equal conditions of interests’ defense, has the skill of expressing himself oratorically and fluently, acts according to the Constitution and laws and has the interest to defend the rights of his constituent on a high level”.

Let us remind that advocates’ licenses were attained by those applicants, who had overcome the lower threshold of the qualification examinations.  
Today in the Republic of Armenia realize activity 1730 advocates.