On March 3, 2025, the HCJ temporarily, till April 20, 2025, suspended from the administration of justice judge of the Babushkinskyi district court of Dnipropetrovsk due to bringing the judge to criminal liability.
The judge is suspected of committing criminal offences under Part 5 of Article 190, Part 2 of Article 384 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, namely, taking possession of someone else's property by deceit (fraud), committed under martial law, in respect of particularly large amount; presenting knowingly falsified evidence, committed for mercenary reasons (misleading a court).
On February 25, 2025, the HCJ gave its consent to take into custody judge of the Babushkinskyi district court of Dnipropetrovsk.
Decision to bring the judge to disciplinary liability and impose a disciplinary sanction in the form of submission for dismissal from office was made by the First Disciplinary Chamber of the HCJ on March 3, 2025.
Oksana Kvasha was elected as the Deputy Chairman of the High Council of Justice
On 4 March 2025, a member of the High Council of Justice, Oksana Kvasha, was elected as the Deputy Chairman of the Council.
Oksana Oleksandrivna Kvasha was elected to the position of a member of the High Council of Justice on 16 November 2023 by the Congress of representatives of higher education and research institutions in the area of law.
HCJ will make submissions to the President of Ukraine on appointment of 7 judges to local courts
On March 4, 2025, the HCJ took decision to make submissions to the President of Ukraine on appointment of three judges to local courts:
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Medvedieva Nataliia Anatoliivna – to the position of judge of the Pervomaiskyi local-district court of Mykolaiv region;
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Buchynskyi Andrii Bohdanovych – to the position of judge of the Verkhovynskyi district court of Ivano-Frankivsk region;
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Pavlenko Nataliia Anatoliivna – to the position of judge of the Economic court of Kherson region.
On March 6, 2025, the HCJ decided to make submissions to the President of Ukraine on appointment of four judges to local courts, namely:
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Pylypenko Iryna Oleksandrivna – to the position of judge of the Chaplynskyi district court of Kherson region;
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Shevchuk Vasyl Volodymyrovych – to the position of judge of the Slavutskyi local-district court of Khmelnytskyi region;
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Melnyk Oleksandr Mykhailovych – to the position of judge of the Novomoskovskyi local-district court of Dnipropetrovsk region;
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Yavitsa Iryna Vasylivna – to the position of judge of the Arbuzynskyi district court of Mykolaiv region.
On March 4, 2025, at its meeting, the HCJ took decision to dismiss under subparagraph 4 of paragraph 16¹ of Section XV “Transitional Provisions” of the Constitution of Ukraine Myroshnychenko Oksana Volodymyrivna from the office of judge of the Holosiivskyi district court of Kyiv.
The decision was taken following the submission with the recommendation of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine, which stated that based on the results of the qualification evaluation of judges of local courts, Oksana Myroshnychenko was found unsuitable for the position held.
HCJ dismissed two judges for committing a significant disciplinary offence
On March 4, 2025, the HCJ took decision on dismissal of Dobrov Pavlo Volodymyrovych, judge of the Kominternovskyi district court of Odesa region and Fedorets Svitlana Volodymyrivna, judge of the Yakimivskyi district court of Zaporizhzhia region under paragraph 3, Part 6 of Article 126 of the Constitution of Ukraine.
The realization of this procedure was carried out on the basis of submissions of the Third Disciplinary Chamber of the HCJ on dismissal of the judge from office for committing a significant disciplinary offense, 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”).
Activity of the HCJ Secretariat in figures for January-February of 2025
1049 appeals from citizens and 132 requests for information were processed by employees of the Secretariat of the High Council of Justice during two months of 2025; 428 appeals from citizens were received to the HCJ hotline at the telephone number (044) 481-06-26.
There were also 1182 cover letters on sending copies of the acts of the HCJ and its bodies prepared by employees of the Secretariat of the Council; 1575 copies of the acts of the HCJ, its bodies and members of the HCJ were issued, 3605 pages of draft documents of the HCJ were edited.
During January–February of 2025, 1343 acts of the HCJ, 406 other documents and 111 news items and announcements were published on the official website of the High Council of Justice; 244 information materials were published on social media pages of the HCJ. 413 information materials were published in the “News” section of the “Judiciary of Ukraine” portal.
This was stated by the HCJ member Dmytro Lukianov in his presentation “European Integration of Ukraine: Prospects for the Judicial System” in the course of the VII Judicial Forum held by the Ukrainian Advocates' Association on March 7, 2025 in Kyiv.
The rapporteur informed that following the bilateral meetings with the European Commission within the framework of the negotiating Chapter 23 “Judiciary and Fundamental Rights” in September 2024 in Brussels, the European Commission prepared an interim report, in which it drew attention to the high level of reform implementation in judicial sector of Ukraine, but at the same time stressed the need to continue efforts to fully comply with the criteria for our country's membership in the European Union, in particular, the importance to ensure the independence, quality and effectiveness of the judicial system.
Dmytro Lukianov noted that as of today, the development of the draft Rule of Law Roadmap is being completed, according to which Ukraine should achieve 30 strategic results and introduce more than 110 measures to implement reforms over the next three years.
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