Volodymyr Zelenskyy has promised to succeed where his predecessors have failed and achieve a genuine judicial reform breakthrough towards the rule of law. At the halfway point in his first term, he is now facing demands to make good on his promise.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has promised to succeed where his predecessors have failed and achieve a genuine judicial reform breakthrough towards the rule of law. At the halfway point in his first term, he is now facing demands to make good on his promise.
In late March 2021 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revoked a decree made by runaway president Viktor Yanukovych appointing two judges to the Constitutional Court. Is this the path for fixing Ukraine’s broken judiciary?
We received the second urgent Opinion of the Venice Commission today, in which the Commission gives recommendations on the reform of the Constitutional Court.
On 22 June, President Zelensky introduced the draft law #3711 on the judiciary in the Parliament.
President Zelensky and his party got unprecedented support from the people in the last year’s elections. The ambitious law enforcement reforms stopped, and the judicial reform did not even have a chance to start.
Last week the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU) adopted its decision on the law 193-IX, which envisaged the next step of judicial reform.
In the article for Kyivpost, Iryna Shyba wrote about the good, bad, and ugly decisions of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine in recent years.
The article looks at consequences for plagiarism by judges and other legal professionals around the world and considers what principles should be used when holding them accountable.
The country’s judicial system remains one of the least trusted public institutions and a major obstacle to foreign direct investment.
Why the competition to Supreme Court is so important for the Anti-Corruption reform
President Petro Poroshenko called them a threat to Ukraine’s sovereignty. But what are the actual results of the international experts’ involvement in the High Anti-Corruption Court competition, and how will it affect judicial reform in general?
