This study analyzes the selection process of judges to the High Anti-Corruption Court (HAC), which was conducted between August 2, 2018 and April 11, 2019.
This study analyzes the selection process of judges to the High Anti-Corruption Court (HAC), which was conducted between August 2, 2018 and April 11, 2019.
Iryna Shyba’s keynotes from the online-webinar “Ukraine Today: From 1 Year of Zelensky to Covid-19 to Upcoming Local Elections”.
Today, the Legal Committee of the Parliament recommended to include the Presidential draft law on the judiciary to the Parliamentary agenda.
Civil Society organizations believe that the draft law #3711 brings a threat to the judicial reform and does not envisage cleansing of the HCJ, and endangers the program of cooperation between the IMF and Ukraine.
The document briefly describes the key roles of all judicial governance and self-governance bodies of the Ukrainian judiciary and explains differences in their work and functions. It also provides a map of the Ukrainian court system.
Today, the President introduced the draft law amending the Law of Ukraine “On the Judiciary and the Status of Judges” and several laws on the Supreme Court and judicial governance bodies in the Parliament.
On 11 June, the Constitutional Court (CC) ruled that Article 375 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is unconstitutional.
According to Article 30 of the Law “On High Council of Justice”, the sessions of the HCJ and its disciplinary chambers should be held openly. After the introduction of quarantine, this opportunity became impossible.
Such a statement was published in a Memorandum between the IMF and Ukraine, which was released today.
President Zelensky and his party got unprecedented support from the people in the last year’s elections. The ambitious law enforcement reforms stopped, and the judicial reform did not even have a chance to start.
Last week the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU) adopted its decision on the law 193-IX, which envisaged the next step of judicial reform.
In the article for Kyivpost, Iryna Shyba wrote about the good, bad, and ugly decisions of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine in recent years.
