Today, the Kyiv District Administrative Court (KDAC) judge Alyona Kushnova has ordered the reinstatement of the scandalous Bohdan Lvov as a judge of the Supreme Court. Despite confirmation from journalists and the SBU regarding Lvov’s possession of Russian citizenship, this did not impede the decision. Lvov is poised to return to the Supreme Court unless… Continue reading Bohdan Lvov is reinstated as a judge of the Supreme Court
Yesterday, December 11, the Civil Court of Cassation within the Supreme Court elected judges Olha Stupak and Serhiy Pohribnyi to the Grand Chamber for a term of three years.
SAPO says that Oleksiy Salnikov, head of the State Judicial Administration of Ukraine, was inciting illegal benefits to Supreme Court judges for ruling in favour of a commercial enterprise.
During today’s meeting, the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) supported the second vetting of judges of the Supreme Court.
A month ago, on April 24, 2023, NGOs have already made a statement calling on the Venice Commission and the EU not to approve the Constitutional Court reform model suggested by the Parliament at that time. We are grateful that our concerns were accommodated and the Ukrainian authorities changed their stance on the key provisions… Continue reading We call on the Venice Commission and the EU to stand firmly on the issue of independence of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine
On Friday, May 26, at 10:00 a.m., the Plenum of the Supreme Court, apparently, is going to elect the new President of the Supreme Court. This poses several threats. 📌First of all, a very dangerous situation is emerging when the selection of the new President of the Court will be influenced by those involved in… Continue reading Haste and candidates of low integrity: the election of the new President of the Supreme Council should be postponed
Today, at a briefing of the heads of the SAPO and NABU regarding a large-scale corruption scheme in the Supreme Court, the director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, Semen Kryvonos, stated that the criminal group, among other things, tried to influence the election of members of the High Qualification Commission of Judges. Could this not… Continue reading A criminal group in the Supreme Court probably tried to influence the election of members of the HQCJ. Among them, perhaps, are those in respect of which the PIC issued negative conclusions
Yesterday NABU and SAPO announced that they had uncovered a large-scale corruption scheme involving the Supreme Court. The mass media reported that it considers receiving a bribe of approximately 3 million dollars by the President of the Supreme Court, Vsevolod Kniazev. Most likely, it is about the case regarding the recognition of the legality of… Continue reading Almost 3 million dollars in bribes: what did the investigation say about the corrupt “back office” of the Supreme Court, and what awaits its President?
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In October 2019, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed the draft law penned by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which reduced the number of judges to 100. In this publication, we analyze calculate the necessary number of Supreme Court judges.
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.
