The Venice Commission responses to the research published in October 2014 by the “Young Barristers”, according to which the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Georgia Giorgi Papuashvili lives in illegally deprived house in Adjara after the “Rose Revolution”. As it is stated in the letter of December 9, 2014 of Thomas Markert, the Director of Secretary of the Venice Commission, the Venice Commission has completely learned the case and has a right to say thanks to the organization on behalf of the President of the Commission Gianni Buquicchio for the presented document. According to the letter, the Venice Commission cannot enter into the merits of Roland Bladadze’s case, since the facts are related to the individual case, however, the Venice Commission has already learned the fact of disputed property concerning to the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Georgia.

According to the published research of the “Young Barristers”, the Chairman  of  the  Constitutional  Court  of  Georgia  -  Giorgi  Papuashvili  lives  in  illegally deprived house in Adjara after the “Rose Revolution”. The issue is related to the case, the history of which became known to broad society first time. In particular, the monitoring reports the case of Roland Bladadze, whose property was deprived illegally against his will, in 2004 and in 2007, the former President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili transferred the deprived property to the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Georgia for symbol price - 1000 Gel.

The “Young Barristers”, in the boundaries of implemented monitoring, has alreadyappeales  to the executive, legislative and judicial authorities of Georgia with  package ofrecommendations. English version of the research has already been sent to the diplomaticrepresentatives in Georgia,  to  the Constitutional Courts of 20 European countries, to theVenice Commission and international organizations.

The first response on the case from the European institutions was from the European Parliament, which on the 10 November 2014, also sent a letter to the organization and clearly stated, that Roland Bladadze case is specific and the State should have an adequate real solution regarding the issue. The Council of Europe also responded to the case and as it is stated in the 28 November 2014  letter of Dirk Schuebel – the Head of Division of Directorate Russia, Eastern Partnership, and Central Asia Regional Cooperation & OSCE of European Council, deprived property cases is one of the challenge that need an adequate response from the Georgian government.