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Iryna Shyba’s keynotes from the online-webinar “Ukraine Today: From 1 Year of Zelensky to Covid-19 to Upcoming Local Elections”.

Today, the Legal Committee of the Parliament recommended to include the Presidential draft law on the judiciary to the Parliamentary agenda. 

Civil Society organizations believe that the draft law #3711 brings a threat to the judicial reform and does not envisage cleansing of the HCJ, and endangers the program of cooperation between the IMF and Ukraine.

Today, the President introduced the draft law amending the Law of Ukraine “On the Judiciary and the Status of Judges” and several laws on the Supreme Court and judicial governance bodies in the Parliament. 

On 11 June, the Constitutional Court (CC) ruled that Article 375 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine is unconstitutional.

According to Article 30 of the Law “On High Council of Justice”, the sessions of the HCJ and its disciplinary chambers should be held openly. After the introduction of quarantine, this opportunity became impossible.

Such a statement was published in a Memorandum between the IMF and Ukraine, which was released today.

Analysts from the Centre of Policy and Legal Reform and DEJURE Foundation tracked and recorded the course of the competition to the Supreme Court and prepared an analytical report thereon.

The civil organizations urge the HQCJ to ensure proper conditions for the international experts’ work and to adopt rules that will ensure transparency in the competition for the High Anti-Corruption Court.

Over the past few weeks, disciplinary action has been used as a threat to pressure some candidates who applied for vacancies at the High Anti-Corruption Court.

Ihor Kolomoiskyi’s lawsuit regarding Privatbank nationalization was reviewed by judges, whose integrity was legitimately cast doubt on.

The next important step in the fight for the independent Anti-Corruption court is the appointment of the head of its apparatus.