On December 3, 2024, the HCJ temporarily suspended, for a period of two months, judge of the Synelnykovskyi local-district court of Dnipropetrovsk region Hrechko Yurii Valeriovych from administering justice – with deprivation of the right to receive supplemental payments to the basic wage of a judge and compulsory assignment of the judge to the National School of Judges of Ukraine for advance qualification course on matters related to the activities of the investigating judge, and further qualification assessment to confirm the judge's ability to administer justice in the relevant court.
On December 3, 2024, the HCJ decided to dismiss judge of the Desnianskyi district court of Kyiv Kolehaieva Svitlana Viktorivna under item 3 of part three of Article 126 of the Constitution of Ukraine.
The implementation of the said procedure was carried out on the basis of submission of the Third Disciplinary Chamber of the HCJ to dismiss a judge from office in connection with a significant disciplinary offence, gross or systematic neglect of duties that is incompatible with the status of a judge or has shown that the judge is not qualified for their current position (Part 8 of Article 109 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Judiciary and the Status of Judges”).
On December 3, 2024, the HCJ decided to dismiss judge of the Dobropilskyi local-district court of Donetsk region Zdorovytsia Olena Volodymyrivna under item 3 of part three of Article 126 of the Constitution of Ukraine.
The implementation of the said procedure was carried out on the basis of submission of the First Disciplinary Chamber of the HCJ to dismiss a judge from office in connection with a significant disciplinary offence, gross or systematic neglect of duties that is incompatible with the status of a judge or has shown that the judge is not qualified for their current position.
13 judges were resigned
On December 3, 2024, the HCJ decided to dismiss seven judges due to the applications for resignation. The list is – at the link.
On December 5, 2024, the HCJ dismissed six judges due to the applications for resignation. The list is – at the link.
HCJ will make submissions to the President of Ukraine on appointment of 5 judges to local courts
On December 3, 2024, the HCJ took decision on making submissions to the President of Ukraine on appointment of four judges to the positions in local courts. The list is – at the link.
On December 5, 2024, the HCJ took decision on making submission to the President of Ukraine on appointment of 25 Karpyn Iryna Mykolaivna to the position of judge of the Yavorivskyi district court of Lviv region.
On December 4, 2024, the Second Disciplinary Chamber of the HCJ took decision on bringing judge to disciplinary liability and imposing a disciplinary sanction in the form of dismissal from office.
President of Ukraine supported submission of the HCJ on appointment of 23 judges
Activity of the Secretariat in figures for January – November 2024
For the period of eleven months of 2024, , 4764 appeals from citizens and 1461 requests for information were considered by employees of the Secretariat of the High Council of Justice; 2286 appeals from citizens were received to the HCJ hotline at the telephone number: (044) 481-06-26. There were also 11312 cover letters on sending copies of the acts of the HCJ and its bodies prepared by employees of the Secretariat of the Council; 20352 copies of the acts of the HCJ, its bodies and members of the HCJ were issued, 25364 pages of draft documents of the HCJ were edited.
The official website of the High Council of Justice published: 5290 acts of the HCJ, 2675 other documents and 720 news items; 1605 information materials were published on social media pages of the HCJ; almost 3000 information materials were published in the “News” section of the “Judiciary of Ukraine” portal.
Member of the HCJ Oksana Kvasha noted that russian military aggression against Ukraine determines the need to develop a model of transitional justice, which is relatively new for the world community, since it began to be used in the middle of the last century precisely for the purpose of sustainable development and peace-building in post-conflict states.
She said this during the discussion panel “Observance of the right to a fair trial in wartime: realities, challenges, prospects” within the framework of the International Human Rights Conference on the topic “Decade 2014 – 2024. Reclaiming human rights. Preserving democracy.”
Oksana Kvasha noted that there is no universal approach to the formation of transitional justice. Ukraine should develop a transitional justice strategy today, as the implementation of all its components should be coordinated.
More details – at the link.
Chairman of the HCJ Hryhorii Usyk participated in the XIII Judicial Forum held by the Ukrainian Bar Association.
During the panel discussion, answering the moderator’s question about whether it is possible to complete judicial reform in Ukraine and where the line is, when it can be considered completed, the head of the HCJ expressed the following opinion:
“Judicial reform can only be completed if there is a balanced and systematic approach to its implementation, and if a consensus is reached between the courts, the prosecutor’s office and the bar, the legislative and executive branches of government, and professional and civil communities. Currently, the reform of the legal system is taking place very quickly, chaotically, and unsystematically, so the expectations from the implementation of the reform are not being met either by society in general nor by the judiciary in particular.”
More details – at the link.
Deputy Chairman of the HCJ Dmytro Lukianov participated in the roundtable discussion ‘Rule of Law and Judicial Ethics in Judicial Training: Challenges and Tasks in the Context of European Integration", organised by the EU Project “Pravo-Justice”.
In his speech, Dmytro Lukianov noted: “The key point in the HCJ's activities is the application of norms of judicial ethics in the context of disciplinary liability, considering the rule of law principles, which consist of legal predictability and legal certainty.”
Dmytro Lukianov expressed the opinion that stability and predictability, which are components of the rule of law in the activities of any authority, including the High Council of Justice, should be ensured by the stability of disciplinary practice, when the same cases are classified in the same way, the same sanctions are applied to the same offences.