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A new attack on NABU and SAPO: Vlasenko brings back his investigative commission
A new attack on NABU and SAPO: Vlasenko brings back his investigative commission

On 27 August, MP Serhii Vlasenko registered draft resolution No. 15568 proposing the establishment of a new Temporary Investigative Commission (TIC). In effect, this would restore the work of the Vlasenko–Buzhanskyi TIC, whose mandate expired on 19 June 2026. In the explanatory note, Vlasenko expl...

New rules bring new risks. What the draft law on the selection of HCJ members changes
New rules bring new risks. What the draft law on the selection of HCJ members changes

The government’s draft law submitted to the Venice Commission for consideration, in addition to a new procedure for forming the HQCJ, also substantially changes the procedures for electing (appointing) members of the High Council of Justice (HCJ). The proposed changes may create new risks for...

HCJ
The government proposes a “broken bicycle” for international experts in the commission selecting HQCJ members
The government proposes a “broken bicycle” for international experts in the commission selecting HQCJ members

The High Qualifications Commission of Judges (HQCJ) is a body that can recommend a person for the position of judge or recommend their dismissal. That is, whoever decides your case, should you suddenly have to go to court, depends on the HQCJ’s assessment. Judges over judges, so to speak. Logi...

HQCJ
From Telegram channels to “databases of offenders”: how judicial reform is attacked
From Telegram channels to “databases of offenders”: how judicial reform is attacked

For years, Telegram channels, personal blogs and individual media outlets have been discrediting civil society organizations that promote judicial reform. Now similar manipulations have appeared on the anonymous English-language website CrimeaWatch. In 2024, the civic initiative Holka examined more...

PIC
DACK cases and judges can end up in the same court again
DACK cases and judges can end up in the same court again

The High Qualifications Commission of Judges (HQCJ) has recommended transferring 6 judges of the liquidated DACK to the Kyiv District Administrative Court (KDAC). All the cases of the liquidated DACK had previously been transferred to the KDAC as well. In other words, the nameplate has changed, but...

DACK HQCJ
EU Council makes the reinstatement of international experts to the selection of HQCJ members a new condition of the Ukraine Facility
EU Council makes the reinstatement of international experts to the selection of HQCJ members a new condition of the Ukraine Facility

The Council of the EU has approved amendments to the Ukraine Facility and the related Ukraine Plan, supplementing it with 27 new reforms. Among them is the adoption of a law that should return independent international experts to the Selection Commission for the selection of members of the High Qual...

Who will select the future members of the HQCJ, and why judicial reform will be at risk without international experts
Who will select the future members of the HQCJ, and why judicial reform will be at risk without international experts

Who ends up on the Selection Commission will determine the future composition of the HQCJ — and therefore, who will go on to select and assess Ukrainian judges. On July 21, the Council of Judges of Ukraine (CoJ) announced an additional round of selection of candidates to the Selection Commission...

Council of Judges HQCJ
Ethics Council recommends candidates for the High Council of Justice
Ethics Council recommends candidates for the High Council of Justice

On 14 July, the Ethics Council found five candidates for the High Council of Justice to meet the criteria of professional ethics and integrity. They are Iryna Davydovych, Oleksandr Zhytnyi, Lesia Muzyka, Ivan Nazarov, and Tetiana Tsuvina. Five candidates were found not to meet the criteria. They are...

HCJ
242 million for inaction: DACK judges are still receiving money from the budget
242 million for inaction: DACK judges are still receiving money from the budget

Judges of the District Administrative Court of Kyiv (DACK) have collectively received over UAH 242 million in judicial remuneration in the three and a half years since the court’s liquidation. On 18 June, the Supreme Court upheld the High Council of Justice’s decision to dismiss former D...

DACK
NGOs call on the President and the Verkhovna Rada to urgently fill vacancies in the Constitutional Court of Ukraine
NGOs call on the President and the Verkhovna Rada to urgently fill vacancies in the Constitutional Court of Ukraine

The Constitutional Court of Ukraine is a key actor in defending the Basic Law and an important part of the system of checks and balances. A politically dependent or dysfunctional Constitutional Court (the Court/CCU) can create serious risks to the balance of power and the rule of law. The Court̵...

Constitutional Court
Competition for the CCU under the Parliament’s quota: AGE has formed the ranked list of candidates
Competition for the CCU under the Parliament’s quota: AGE has formed the ranked list of candidates

On July 6, 2026, the Advisory Group of Experts (AGE) held a ranked vote on 9 candidates for two vacant positions of judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine under the quota of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and formed its final ranked list. Based on the results of the vote by AGE members, the&he...

Constitutional Court Verkhovna Rada
The Pecherskyi District Court of Kyiv is obstructing the work of journalists
The Pecherskyi District Court of Kyiv is obstructing the work of journalists

Judge Serhii Vovk, through an interim measure, has banned investigators from Slidstvo.Info and the Anti-Corruption Action Center (AntAC) from publishing material about the property of the brother of the director of the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI). The court’s decision came on July 6...

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