Against the background of yesterday’s good news, the Verkhovna Rada is planning to adopt two harmful draft laws next week: No. 8359, which allows not recording court sessions, and No. 7033-д, which provides for limiting access to the court register.
Against the background of yesterday’s good news, the Verkhovna Rada is planning to adopt two harmful draft laws next week: No. 8359, which allows not recording court sessions, and No. 7033-д, which provides for limiting access to the court register.
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.
The Selection Commission announced a list of 32 recommended candidates for 16 vacant positions in the High Qualification Commission of Judges. Now the ball is in the court of the HCJ. We are glad to note that the absolute majority of worthy candidates are on the list.
In the opinion of more than half of Ukrainians, independent international experts should have a casting vote in the selection of judges of the Constitutional Court. These are the results of a survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology from February 6 to March 1, 2023, at the request of DEJURE Foundation. At the same time, a little more than a third of the respondents believe that representatives of the Ukrainian government should have a casting vote in the selection of judges in the CCU, namely the President, the Verkhovna Rada, and the Congress of Judges.
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
The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine has changed the date of the Congress of Legal Scholars. Therefore, the scholars will gather on April 21, 2023, at 11 a.m. at the Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics (Kyiv, 19 Kyoto St.) to elect one member of the HCJ. Initially, the Congress was supposed to take… Continue reading The Congress of Legal Scholars, which is supposed to elect a new member of the HCJ, has been postponed to April
According to Politico, PM Denys Shmyhal said that the government is ready to review the recently adopted law on the “reform” of the CCU.
The Venice Commission has once again expressed its position regarding the law on the “reform” of the CCU in a letter to Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk.
There was a possibility of electing the Head from those who were in the old composition of the High Council of Justice. The next indicator of the quality of the new HCJ will be the election of the Deputy Head.
“The opinion of the Venice Commission, published on December 19, recommends that… (ii) the size of the Advisory Group of Experts (AGE) should be increased to seven, and the 7th member should be delegated under international quota”
Today, the draft law amending the Law of Ukraine “On the Judiciary and the Status of Judges” and several other laws was registered in the Parliament.
According to the information that recently appeared on the portal of the Judiciary, Ruslan Arsiriy, a judge of the DACK, filed a lawsuit against the State Judicial Administration in the Kyiv District Administrative Court.
