The meeting in Panel of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine was attended by three members of the Commission: Yaroslav Dukh, Roman Kydysiuk, Oleksii Omelyan.

1. The High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine decided to admit Viktoriia Yakovleva to the qualification evaluation and participation in the competition for 550 vacant positions of judges of appellate courts announced by the decision of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine No. 94/zp-23 of September 14, 2023, (as amended).  

The meeting of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine was attended by 15 members of the Commission in plenary session: Roman Ihnatov, Mykhailo Bohonis, Liudmyla Volkova, Vitalii Gatseliuk, Yaroslav Dukh, Roman Kydysiuk, Nadiia Kobetska, Oleh Koliush, Ruslan Melnyk, Oleksii Omelyan, Andrii Pasichnyk, Roman Sabodash, Ruslan Sydorovych, Serhii Chumak, Halyna Shevchuk.

In order to receive proposals and comments from external stakeholders on the draft Anti-Corruption Programme of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine
for 2024-2026, a public discussion of the draft will be held online on March 20, 2024.

The event will start at 11:00.

For three days, from March 13 to 15, 2024, with the support of the “Fair, Transparent and Accountable Criminal Justice System in Ukraine” Project of the Center for International Legal Cooperation (CILC), representatives of the judiciary and judicial self-government bodies of Ukraine took part in training activities held in the Hague, the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

On March 15, 2024, the panel of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine postponed the interview with the judge of the Oktiabrskyi District Court of Poltava City Hanna Andriienko as part of the qualification evaluation of local court judges for correspondence to the position held.

On March 15, 2024, the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine made a decision to extend the deadline for submission of documents for participation in the competition for vacant positions of judges of the High Anti-Corruption Court and the Chamber Appeal of the High Anti-Corruption Court announced by the Commission’s decision No. 145/zp-23 of November 23, 2023 (as amended) until March 30, 2024.

On March 14, 2024, the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine, in Panels, held interviews with 14 winners of the competition for vacant positions of local court judges announced on September 14, 2023.

Based on the results of the interviews, the Commission decided to recommend for the appointment:

The Deputy Chairman of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine, Ruslan Sydorovych, made a visit to the institutions of the Council of Europe, dedicated to the discussion of Ukraine’s implementation of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which took place on March 11 and 12, 2024, in the city of Strasbourg, France.

On March 13, 2024, the plenary session of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine, at its meeting, considered the issue of recommendations for appointment to the positions of judges.

The judges passed the qualification evaluation and were recognized by the Commission as suitable for the position.

Taking into account the results of the qualification evaluation, the Commission decided to recommend:

On March 12, 2024, the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine, in Panels, held interviews with 24 winners of the competition for vacant positions of local court judges announced on September 14, 2023.