Of course, we still have the problem of legal literacy, in the broad frames of the Republic of Armenia isn’t yet completely exposed the institute of moral damage compensation. That was mentioned in the interview given to “Pastinfo” by the first Deputy of the Chairman of the Chamber of Advocates of RA, advocate Artur Hovhannisyan.  

According to the advocate, for example, it isn’t exposed who, when and in what circumstances can turn to the claim of moral damage compensation, as also wasn’t defined the utmost amount of the compensation. What means that there is a lot of work to be done on this matter.

Artur Hovhannisyan emphasized the necessity of organizing press conferences on this topic for the media and on working in this direction specialized advocates or other lawyers should reveal to the publicity the institute of moral damage compensation.

“Today, on saying “moral damage” the citizens understand this notion more from the soap operas they  watch. They understand that in case they have been offended somehow, that means that offend can be compensated by a certain sum of money. Meanwhile, if you appreciate it isn’t that way, very narrow is the circle when you can in fact apply for moral damage compensation”, - noted A. Hovhannisyan.  

According to the advocate, the investment of the institute of  moral damage compensation very promptly happened in Armenia, to his mind it took place too rapidly, as “we still had unsolved issues, the problem of convention yet unsolved”.  A. Hovhannisyan thinks, that the sum of moral damage compensation isn’t sufficient, that means in fact if the person wants to get the compensation for the sufferings he went through, for the moral damage,  “the sum of compensation I think isn’t sufficient, I would rather say nominal, to say that we do have the moral damage compensation institute”.

“I don’t want us just to put a nominal “check mark” and move on forward”, - said Artur Hovhannisyan.

By the way, we learnt from the Chamber of Advocates that there had been retraining lectures on the topic of moral damage compensation led by the program of American Bar Association of 2014,  that were conducted by Ara Khazaryan and Artak Zeynalyan.  

Source: Pastinfo