The Real Estate Property Protection in Georgian Republic (PDF)

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Law - Comparative Legal Systems, Comparative Law, grade: B, University of Bremen, course: Human Rights, language: English, abstract: Topic of my paper is Real Estate protection in Georgian Republic, and I will observe the ownership right in scope of Protocol 1 Article 1 "Property Protection". By Article 1 "Every natural or legal person is entitled to the peaceful enjoyment of his possessions". In the statement possessions we can consider everything of economic value, phrase "possessions" is very huge by its contents and I will limit my inquest to real estate, so my point of inquest is the protection of real estate in Georgian Republic. Paper comprises elucidation of problems regarding protection of the right to property in republic of Georgia, which arose after the governmental shift and draws the subsisting situation concerning violation of ownership rights entitled by the Protocol 1 article 1. The paper also includes cases in which ownership rights were breached.
In 2003 in Georgia happened Rose Revolution which by its side evoked the total governmental shift, total governmental shift means that everyone who was governing and reining the country became persecuted by the new government and the policy of new rulers became a great threat for their possessions, Thousands of private property were demolished and assigned to the state. The number of cases in which private owners granted their property to the state without reimbursement has increased. Bodies which should guarantee the inviolability of property breached the fundamental right.