The judicial reform launched in Ukraine in 2016 foresaw the creation of the new Supreme Court. In general, changes were aimed at renewing the old system and forming fair institutions. In the years since Ukrainian independence in 1991,...
As the selection process to Ukraine’s top judicial institution, the Supreme Court, enters its final phase, the EU Delegation and civic activists are calling on Ukraine’s final selection committee to show the door to 30 judges...
Olena Kibenko has been practicing law from 1992. This very year, the law firm “Profit” was founded, where Kibenko was a chairwoman. From 2002 till 2011 she worked at the ILF law firm, firstly as a consultant, then as...
Some in Ukraine reckon that a quarter of dishonest judges in the Supreme Court is actually is not a bad result – it could have been worse. However, the cases in which these judges were involved suggest the situation is quite...
Ukrainian justice has a bad reputation. The trust in the judiciary remains critically low – an opinion poll from late 2016 found only 37% of Ukrainians trust the judicial system. After the Euromaidan revolution, Ukraine received the...
About a month is left until Ukraine makes the decision which will define its future for the next decades. The candidates to the new Supreme Court, the core judicial institution influencing processes in all the areas of life,...
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...
First stereotype: Ukrainians are very poor Some Europeans viewed Ukraine as extremely poor. Many Ukrainian refugees were surprised to learn that. “They perceived us almost like we are cave people who do not know and have not seen...
