During our study, we analyzed 364 court decisions in family cases concerning the rights and interests of children. These decisions, adopted between 2022 and 2023, were based on lawsuits and ruled in favor of the child’s father (relevant cases). These court decisions come from 11 local courts of justice. The relevant cases in this study… Continue reading In the Best Interests of the Father: How Children’s Rights Are Abused During Mobilization
Yaroslav Kuzyshyn, Advocacy Manager, DEJURE Foundation Kateryna Shevchuk, Communications Manager, DEJURE Foundation This article was originally published in Ukrainian in Ukrainska Pravda. The Ukrainian Bar is increasingly engulfed in a storm of manipulations and conflicts. Connections with Russia and the traitor Medvedchuk, corruption, monopoly of the Ukrainian National Bar Association (UNBA), and impunity of traitor attorneys… Continue reading Elections in the Shadow of War: Who are mobilised attorneys hindering?
Since August 2021, the High Council of Justice (HCJ) has not considered disciplinary complaints against judges, as Law 1635-IX provided for the creation of the Service of Disciplinary Inspectors (SDI), as a division of the Secretariat of the HCJ, which prepares disciplinary proceedings. Despite this, the HCJ continued to receive disciplinary complaints against judges, which, however,… Continue reading Eight thousand disciplinary complaints: how to organise the work of the new HCJ effectively?
On February 14, on Tuesday, the Constitutional Court will return to consideration of the constitutional submission regarding the reform of the High Council of Justice, which the Supreme Court proposes to recognise as unconstitutional. In 2021, the Plenum of the Supreme Court, on the proposal of the previous composition of the HCJ, made a submission to the… Continue reading The Constitutional Court is considering the submission of the Supreme Court regarding the reform of the High Council of Justice
The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine has changed the date of the Congress of Legal Scholars. Therefore, the scholars will gather on April 21, 2023, at 11 a.m. at the Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics (Kyiv, 19 Kyoto St.) to elect one member of the HCJ. Initially, the Congress was supposed to take… Continue reading The Congress of Legal Scholars, which is supposed to elect a new member of the HCJ, has been postponed to April
Good news from the High Council of Justice: it terminated the honourable discharge of four corrupt judges. Who are those judges: The Supreme Council of Justice made this decision concerning the entry into force of the convictions against these persons. Previously, these persons received UAH 100,000 per month or more. Now they will not receive… Continue reading The HCJ stopped the honourable discharge of four corrupt judges
