The Supreme Court reinstates Vovk’s ally Mazur to the bench
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 Ju...
Imitation instead of reforms: MPs turned the judicial integrity check into a formality
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 a...
The Committee on Legal Policy backed a bill that raises judges’ pay and destroys the verification of their integrity
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 inco...
Vovk’s return is not going to happen? The Supreme Court has ruled in a similar case
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 material...
Judges with integrity reservations in line for lifetime payments, the High Council of Justice votes “yes”
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...
Honourable escape: how DACK judge Kuzmenko avoided assessment and secured lifetime payments
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 allo...