A path into the legal profession is opening up for Pavlo Vovk after the Supreme Court refused to reinstate him as a judge. Vovk suspended his right to practice law back in 2007, but he can renew it very quickly. Pavlo Vovk would then join the team of Lidia Izovitova and Andriy Yermak, and together… Continue reading Pavlo Vovk may renew his attorney license
On June 18, the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court upheld the decision of the High Council of Justice to dismiss Pavlo Vovk, the former head of the liquidated District Administrative Court of Kyiv. The Court denied Vovk’s request for reinstatement to the position of judge. This ruling puts an end to Vovk’s attempt to… Continue reading Vovk finally dismissed from the position of judge
Today, June 17, the DEJURE Foundation and the Anti-Corruption Action Centre held a briefing for international partners on rule-of-law reforms on Ukraine’s path to the EU. The event took place after the official opening of the negotiating cluster “Fundamentals” for Ukraine. It is precisely this cluster that concentrates issues key to European integration: judicial reform, anti-corruption policy,… Continue reading Rule of law on the path to the EU: DEJURE and AntAC held a briefing for international partners
The EU has opened the main negotiating cluster for Ukraine — “Fundamentals.” This is where the actual assessment of the state’s readiness for membership begins. The European Union has officially approved the opening of accession negotiations with Ukraine. On June 15, 2026, consideration of the first negotiating cluster began in Luxembourg. Separate intergovernmental conferences were… Continue reading EU negotiations begin with “Fundamentals”: what this means for judicial reform
The Congress of Attorneys of Ukraine may finally be held. At the congress, which was supposed to take place back in 2022, the head of the Bar Council of Ukraine (BCU) and the National Bar Association of Ukraine (NBAU), members of the BCU and other bar governance bodies were to be re-elected. However, its convening… Continue reading Attorneys are collecting signatures to unblock the Congress of Attorneys
The Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court has overturned the decision to dismiss Alyona Mazur from her position as judge. Mazur is a judge of the infamous Kyiv District Administrative Court (DACK) who: sabotaged the qualification assessment at Vovk’s direction, which is why the High Council of Justice dismissed her; helped Vovk take control of… Continue reading The Supreme Court reinstates Vovk’s ally Mazur to the bench
The Verkhovna Rada adopted in the second reading draft law No. 13165-2, which was supposed to improve the mechanism for verifying judges’ integrity declarations. However, in its current version, the document does not strengthen the verification — on the contrary, it preserves old loopholes and creates new risks for avoiding accountability. A draft law with… Continue reading Imitation instead of reforms: MPs turned the judicial integrity check into a formality
Today, the Committee on Legal Policy finally completed its preparations for the second reading of Bill No. 13165-2, which was supposed to improve the mechanism for verifying judges’ integrity declarations. In these declarations, judges confirm annually that they live within their official income, do not make decisions in situations of conflict of interest, do not… Continue reading The Committee on Legal Policy backed a bill that raises judges’ pay and destroys the verification of their integrity
The Supreme Court has upheld the High Council of Justice’s decision to dismiss judge Serhiy Burkhan. This case is directly linked to the case of former head of the District Administrative Court of Kyiv, Pavlo Vovk — in both instances, the grounds for the judges’ dismissal were materials from criminal proceedings, including records of covert… Continue reading Vovk’s return is not going to happen? The Supreme Court has ruled in a similar case
Scandalous judge of the District Administrative Court of the city of Kyiv (DACK), Natalia Dobrivska, has become the next in line among the low-integrity judges to receive from the High Council of Justice a green light to lifetime payments of at least UAH 63,000 per month. The judge may also receive 378,000 hryvnias as a… Continue reading Judges with integrity reservations in line for lifetime payments, the High Council of Justice votes “yes”
The High Council of Justice (HCJ) has retired judge Anna Kuzmenko of the dissolved District Administrative Court of Kyiv (DACK), who had been issuing rulings at the direction of the court’s former notorious head, Pavlo Vovk. Kuzmenko is 43 years old and will now receive a lifetime monthly allowance of at least UAH 65,000 and… Continue reading Honourable escape: how DACK judge Kuzmenko avoided assessment and secured lifetime payments
The High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) has imposed a preventive measure in the form of bail on Supreme Court judges Iryna Hryhoriieva and Ihor Zheleznyi. For Hryhoriieva — UAH 2.5 million, and for Zheleznyi — UAH 2 million. A number of procedural obligations have also been placed on them. Both judges are suspected of having conspired… Continue reading The Kniaziev case: Supreme Court judges Hryhoriieva and Zheleznyi receive bail
