The decision to bring a judge to disciplinary liability and apply a disciplinary penalty to her in the form of submission for dismissal from the office was made by the First Disciplinary Chamber of the HCJ on September 9, 2024.
On September 9, 2024, the HCJ decided to extend till November 9, 2024, inclusive, the term of temporary suspension of a judge of the Commercial court of Dnipropetrovsk region from administering justice due to bringing the judge to criminal liability.
The judge is suspected of committing a criminal offense, provided by part two of Article 15, part three of Article 27, part 2 Article 146 of CC of Ukraine, namely in the organization of a completed attempted abduction of a person and illegal confinement committed for mercenary motives, by a group of persons upon their prior conspiracy, and carried out over a long period of time, which is punishable by imprisonment for up to five years.
HCJ dismissed 7 judges on general grounds
The HCJ decided to dismiss due to their applications for resignation:
- Shaptala Yevhen Yuriiovych – from the office of the judge of the Northern appellate commercial court;
- Stadnyk Mariia Semenivna – from the office of the judge of the Commercial court of Ternopil region;
- Zahreba Iryna Vitaliivna – from the office of the judge of the Kirovskyi district court of Kirovohrad;
- Neroda Liudmyla Mykolaivna – from the office of the judge of the Oleksandriiskyi city district court of Kirovohrad region;
- Redko Zhanna Yevhenivna – from the office of the judge of the Dymytrivskyi city court of Donetsk region;
- Stelmakh Ihor Orestovych – from the office of the judge of the Lviv appellate court.
Also, the HCJ dismissed Braha Artem Volodymyrovych from the office of the judge of the Zhovtnevyi district court of Dnipropetrovsk by his own volition.
The decision to bring a judge to disciplinary liability and apply a disciplinary penalty to her in the form of submission for dismissal from the office was made by the Third Disciplinary Chamber of the HCJ on September 11, 2024.
The decision to bring a judge to disciplinary liability and apply a disciplinary penalty to him in the form of submission for dismissal from the office was made by the Third Disciplinary Chamber of the HCJ on September 11, 2024.
On September 12, 2024, the HCJ made a decision to dismiss a judge of the Poltava appellate court Halionkin Serhii Anatoliiovych based on item 3 of part three of Article 126 of the Constitution of Ukraine.
The realization of the mentioned procedure was made on the basis of the submission of the Third Disciplinary Chamber of the HCJ on the dismissal of a judge from the office in connection with a significant disciplinary offense, gross or systematic neglect of duties that is incompatible with the status of a judge or has revealed his or her incompatibility with the position held (part eight of Article 109 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Judiciary and the Status of Judges”).
The meeting of a working group for developing and implementing of standards of personnel, financial, material and technical, and other provision of courts of Ukraine jointly with the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) was held at the HCJ.
The working group, chaired by the HCJ member Serhii Burlakov, was formed by the decision of the HCJ in August 2024. Such a need occurred due to the number of comments on the draft standards for personnel, financial, logistical and other provision of courts proposed by the SJA of Ukraine. The drafts need to be thoroughly revised, in particular, with research on specific issues. The HCJ addressed the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice of the Council of Europe with a request to form an expert group on this issue at CEPEJ.
During the meeting, the working group discussed the possibility of the assessment and diagnostics in the pilot courts regarding such areas:
- workload of judges and court employees;
- changes in territorial jurisdiction of court cases and in judicial map;
- new categories of cases under the martial law and due to the war;
- excessive timeframes of proceedings and existing backlogs.
During January – August 2024 the HCJ made decisions on dismissal 186 judges
162 judges were dismissed on general grounds, in particular:
- 155 judges were dismissed due to the submission of applications for resignation, in particular:
- 7 judges of local courts were dismissed due to the submission of applications for dismissal on their own volition.
On special grounds the High Council of Justice dismissed 24 judges, in particular:
- for committing a significant disciplinary offense – 20;
- on the basis of subitem 4 of item 16¹ of Section XV “Transitional Provisions” of the Constitution of Ukraine in accordance with the submissions with the recommendation of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine– 4.
During eight months of 2024, the HCJ received 158 notifications on interference in the professional activity of judges regarding administering justice and actions that violate the guarantees of judicial independence or undermine the authority of justice. Considering the previously received notifications, the HCJ considered 180 notifications from judges since the beginning of the year.
By the results of consideration of 70 notifications on interference in the activity of judges regarding administering justice, 69 decisions were made on taking response measures:
Having considered 110 notifications from judges, the Council made 29 decisions on approval of 97 opinions of HCJ members on the absence of grounds to take measures to ensure judicial independence and the authority of justice.
The HCJ made 4 decisions by its initiative within its powers on taking measures regarding ensuring judicial independence and the authority of justice.