Our Lawyers Deepens Its European Human Rights Practice Through Direct Work With the European Court of Human Rights
February 2025, Strasbourg, France
On 26 and 27 February 2025, managing partner Nino Tatoshvili of LAWYERS.GE joined a high-level Georgian legal delegation in Strasbourg, France, for a professional study visit to the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The visit was organized by Georgian Lawyers for the Independent Profession together with the Georgian Association of Women Auditors and Lawyers, bringing together leading practitioners engaged in cross-border and human-rights litigation.
For LAWYERS.GE, the visit was part of an ongoing effort to strengthen its European human-rights and international litigation practice, which plays a growing role for both Georgian and international clients. Many of the firm’s cases involve fundamental rights, child protection, due-process violations, unlawful state interference, and international family or business disputes that ultimately fall under the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights.
One of the most significant moments of the visit was attendance at a Grand Chamber hearing of the European Court of Human Rights in the case Tsava and Others v. Georgia, which concerns the events of June 20–21, 2019 in Tbilisi. This case is one of the most important proceedings in recent Georgian legal history, addressing state responsibility, public order policing, and the protection of democratic freedoms. Observing how such a case is argued and evaluated at the highest level of the ECHR gives practitioners a rare and highly practical understanding of how Strasbourg actually works.
Beyond the courtroom, the delegation also visited the Council of Europe, where participants received briefings on the institution’s internal structure and on the work of GRECO, the Group of States Against Corruption. This is particularly relevant for LAWYERS.GE’s international business and compliance clients, because many corporate and regulatory disputes in Georgia involve issues of governance, enforcement fairness, and political or administrative pressure that are monitored at the European level.
On the second day, the group met with Georgian Judge of the European Court of Human Rights Court Lawyer Ms. Nino Khaindrava. These meetings offered direct insight into how ECHR applications are processed, how admissibility decisions are made, how urgency and priority are assessed, and how evidence and state responses are evaluated by the Court. This practical knowledge is critical for any law firm that represents clients in Strasbourg, where even strong cases can fail if procedural rules are misunderstood or misapplied.
For clients of LAWYERS.GE, both in Georgia and abroad, this experience translates into better legal strategy and more effective representation. Whether a case concerns a child custody dispute, unlawful detention, property rights, freedom of expression, or abuse of administrative power, success at the European Court depends on knowing not only the Convention, but also how the Court actually works in practice.
By engaging directly with Europe’s highest human-rights institutions, LAWYERS.GE continues to position itself as a law firm that operates beyond national borders. Under the leadership of Nino Tatoshvili, the firm combines litigation in Georgian courts with strategic representation before the European Court of Human Rights, offering clients a level of international legal protection that few firms in the region can provide.
LAWYERS.GE stands for one clear principle: when rights are not protected at home, they must be enforced in Europe — and the firm is fully prepared to do both.