The problem According to the law, the High Qualification Commission of Judges (HQCJ) selects and conducts qualification assessments of judges, recommending them for an appointment. The High Council of Justice (HCJ) makes final decisions on...
Several post-Euromaidan attempts to reform Ukraine’s judiciary have been made in Ukraine, during the presidencies of both Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. On the legal level, Poroshenko’s reform initially seemed to be...
Last week the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU) adopted its decision on the law 193-IX, which envisaged the next step of judicial reform. The law was initiated by President Zelenskyy in August 2019 and the Parliament approved it in...
The urgent need to fight rampant corruption was one of the catalysts for Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity, the Euromaidan four years ago. Since then, several key reforms have been launched on the anti-corruption front. Yet, their...
The most crucial reform in Ukraine is in danger. The results of the competition to the highly important body in the judiciary system, the Supreme Court, showed that 93 out of 120 candidates to the body are representatives of the old guard....
However, despite expectations for a significant improvement, there is every indication that the new Supreme Court will not be fundamentally different from the old one, and the situation in the judiciary may be preserved for the upcoming...
In late March 2016, detectives from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau came to search the house of a city district judge in Odesa. The procedure was approved by a court decree and conducted as part of a pretrial investigation in...
The good news is that the last two years have seen a great deal of change and reform in the civil service and judiciary and consequently both spheres are in a state of flux. The bad news is that the government’s policy of...
Putin’s goals and philosophy Sławomir Sierakowski: What is Putin’s ultimate goal in this war? Timothy Snyder: That’s no big secret: to destroy Ukraine as a state and exterminate Ukrainians as a nation. I’d...
