Today, the members of the HCJ formed the new composition of the High Qualification Commission of Judges. It will include: Lyudmyla Volkova, Vitaliy Hatselyuk, Yaroslav Dukh, Nadiya Kobetska, Ruslan Melnyk, Andriy Pasichnyk, Roman Sabodash, Ruslan Sydorovych, Mykhailo Bohonis, Roman Ihnatov, Roman Kydysyuk, Oleh Koliush, Volodymyr Luhanskyi, Oleksiy Omelyan, Serhiy Chumak, Halyna Shevchuk. The reboot of… Continue reading The High Council of Justice formed the new HQCJ
The Ethics Council was formed in November 2021 to reform the High Council of Justice, one of the key governance bodies within the Ukrainian judiciary. The role of the EC was to conduct thorough assessments of then-members of the HCJ and candidates for vacant HCJ positions. Holding the interviews behind closed doors The EC decided… Continue reading Setbacks of the Ethics Council
The arrest of the President of the Supreme Court, Vsevolod Kniazev, and the exposure of a large-scale corruption scheme in the Supreme Court, according to the judges themselves, became a “black day” for the judicial system of Ukraine. Furthermore, NABU and SAPO reported on attempts of the criminal group to influence the election of members… Continue reading We call on the HCJ to appoint members of the HQCJ promptly and transparently
“There are many possible options — both the appointment of eight candidates from among judges and the appointment of a smaller number. In any case, I did not say a single word that there could be an inoperative composition of the HQCJ”,
The HQCJ can appoint eight judges to the HQCJ from the ten proposed candidates or limit itself to 6, which is necessary for the HQCJ to become operational (Part 4 of Article 92 of the Law). In the second case, an additional competition will have to be held.
If the HCJ believes that among the ten proposed candidates-judges there are eight decent ones to be appointed to the HQCJ, then there are no legal provisions that would not allow the HCJ to form an operational composition of the HQCJ right now.
Читати українською. On February 28, 2023, Oleksiy Melnyk and Oleh Kanzyuba were elected as new members of the HCJ at the Conference of Prosecutors. Oleksiy Melnyk was the head of the Specialized Environmental Prosecutor’s Office of the Prosecutor General’s Office. Oleh Kanzyuba held the position of deputy head of the crime prevention department in the prosecutor’s office… Continue reading Oleksiy Melnyk and Oleh Kanzyuba were elected as new members of the HCJ
This article was originally published in Ukrainian in Ukrainska Pravda. On January 11-12, the Сongress of judges took place in Kyiv. It selected eight new members of the High Council of Justice. The worst-case scenario, in which the selection of members of the HCJ would have failed and which we wrote about in December, did… Continue reading HCJ 2.0: how society should evaluate the work of the new composition of the High Council of Justice
This article was originally published in Ukrainian in Ukrainska Pravda. Authors: Halyna Chyzhyk, Anti-Corruption Action Center Kateryna Butko, Automaidan On January 19, the first meeting of the new High Council of Justice (HCJ) was held. It is symbolic that the first decision of the new HCJ was the approval of the State Anti-Corruption Program (SACP)… Continue reading What is the judicial mafia afraid of in the Anti-Corruption Program?
JUDICIAL REFORM ROADMAP JUDICIAL REFORM ROADMAP Requirement #1 Requirement #2 Requirement #3 Requirement #4 EN УКР JUDICIAL REFORM ROADMAP Requirement #1 Requirement #2 Requirement #3 Requirement #4 Facebook Twitter Behance Instagram Renewed HCJ and HQCJ WHAT IS NEEDED FOR ESTABLISHING A TRULY INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY OF HIGH INTEGRITY IN UKRAINE? an independent judiciary is only possible… Continue reading Judicial reform roadmap
Almost half of Ukrainians surveyed believe that judges should be selected by independent public experts – investigative journalists and other civil society representatives. Slightly less than 30% assign this role to independent international experts. Ukrainians expressed the least confidence in the selection of judges to judges and politicians themselves. This is shown by a study… Continue reading Ukrainians trust public and international experts rather than judges to select judges – the survey
