How a Disciplinary Case Is Heard
Understanding a disciplinary appeal in military service begins with the rule governing the hearing of the disciplinary case: it is heard under the procedure established by the General Administrative Code of Georgia and the Defence Code, save where an international treaty provides otherwise. A serviceman's disciplinary dispute thus rests on two legal layers — the general administrative procedure and the special military-service norms.
An important guarantee concerns the serviceman's position: a serviceman about whom a suspicion of committing a disciplinary offence has been expressed is obliged to facilitate the hearing of the disciplinary case, but this obligation does not include confessing or giving explanations against himself. In other words, the duty to cooperate does not deprive the person of the right of defence.