Mindia Ugrekhelidze ( ka, მინდია უგრეხელიძე; born 13 May 1942) is a Georgian

judge A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges. A judge hears all the witnesses and any other evidence presented by the barristers or solicitors of the case, assesses the credibility an ...

and legal academic. He served as a chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia between 1990 and 1999 and a judge of the European Court of Human Rights between 1999 and 2008. He was a candidate for the December 2014 elections of judges to the International Criminal Court. A holder of the Ph.D. in law (1974) he has authored over 100 publications on various aspects of

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and human rights published in Georgian and international academic periodicals. Mindia Ugrekhelidze is the husband of Eva Gotsiridze, a senior judge in Georgia.

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