Tornike Chikovani, criminal lawyer in Tbilisi, Georgia

Sexual offences & sensitive allegations

Sexual Offences & Sensitive Allegations

Confidential defence and victim representation involving sexual allegations, consent, minors, intimate images, digital evidence and forensic examination.

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Sensitive allegations require confidential, trauma-aware handling and rigorous evidence review, including the precise allegation, consent or age issues, timing, digital material and forensic integrity.

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Protect privacy while preserving the evidential record

Confidential defence and victim representation in sexual-offence and intimate-image cases, with careful attention to consent, safeguarding, medical evidence, digital evidence and privacy.

Delayed reporting, incomplete memory, medical findings and private communications must be handled without assumptions about credibility or guilt. Neither party should contact, pressure or publicly identify the other while the legal position is assessed.

Control confidentiality, chronology, consent and corroboration

Protect safety, dignity, confidentiality and the presumption of innocence

Separate each alleged act, participant and legal element

Preserve messages, location data and medical or digital material

Avoid direct contact, public commentary or informal evidence gathering

Georgian Criminal Code — explained

Sensitive allegations by conduct and evidential question

Article 137

Rape

The current provision concerns sexual penetration committed through the means specified in the article; the precise alleged act and circumstances must be proved.

Read full guide →Article 138

Another action of a sexual nature

May apply to a non-penetrative sexual act alleged to involve violence, threat of violence or abuse of a helpless condition.

Read full guide →Article 139

Coercion into a sexual act

May be relevant where the alleged means involve threats to property or private information, dependence, or abuse of a helpless condition.

Read full guide →Article 150

Coercion

Focuses on an unlawful physical or mental restriction of a person's freedom to act or refrain from acting.

Read full guide →Article 181

Extortion

Potentially relevant to a property demand accompanied by a qualifying threat; the demand, threat, purpose and communications should be examined together.

Read full guide →Article 151

Threat

Requires examination of the alleged threat and whether it produced a reasonable fear that it would be carried out.

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Sexual offences & sensitive allegations

Sexual Coercion and Abuse

Sexual Coercion and Abuse: Article 150 analysis, focusing on protecting safety, dignity, confidentiality and the presumption of innocence under Georgian law.

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