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...
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...
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...
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...
The Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court may issue a final ruling in the case of Inna Otrosh, a former judge of the Kyiv Commercial Court who was dismissed after failing her qualification assessment. If Otrosh is reinstated, it will send a dangerous signal across the entire system: that one can blatan...
Today’s hearing on the reinstatement of Inna Otrosh ended without a decision. The case was postponed until December 11 at 14:00. Otrosh was supported by her long-time allies: Maidan judges Taras Zaiets and Oksana Tsarevych, as well as Rostyslav Kravets — one of the figures featured in the “...
