On August 13, 2025, the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine made changes to the personal composition of the Commission’s chambers and will continue to work in the following compositions:

First Chamber of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine:

On August 13, 2025, at a plenary session of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine, the issue of confirming the ability of one candidate for the position of judge to administer justice in the commercial court of appeal and one candidate in the Sumy Court of Appeal was considered.

Based on the results of the session, the Commission adopted the following decisions:

Please be informed, that on August 11 – 13 2025, 2,237 participants were tested on their general knowledge in the field of law and knowledge of the specialisation of the local commercial court as the second stage of the qualification exam within the selection for the position of local court judge.

The coded test results for August 13, 2025 were established for 467 persons:

1) did not reach the minimum passing score – 12 persons;

On August 26, 2025, at the session of the Second Chamber of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine, interviews were held and the results of the qualification assessement of six candidates for the positions of judges of commercial courts of appeal were determined.

Based on the results of the qualification assesement, the Commission took the following decisions:

On August 13, 2025, the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine took a decision to approve the ranking of candidates for vacant positions of judges in commercial courts of appeal based on the results of the qualification assessment within the competition announced by the decision of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine dated September

 Please, be informed, that the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine has completed testing of general knowledge in the field of law and knowledge of the specialization of local administrative courts, which was held from August 05 to August 08, 2025.

I. Composition of participants admitted to the second stage of the qualification exam i.e., testing of general knowledge in the field of law and knowledge of local administrative court specialisation.

According to part one of Article 55 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Judiciary and the Status of Judges”, a judge may, with his or her consent, be seconded to another court of the same level and specialisation to administer justice by a decision of the High Council of Justice adopted on the basis of a submission from the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine.

On August 12, 2025, at the session in Panels of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine, interviews were conducted and the results of the qualification assessment of four candidates for the positions of judges at the Sumy Court of Appeal were determined.

Based on the results of the qualification assessment, the Commission took the following decisions:

Please be informed, that from August 11 to August 13, 2025, test on general knowledge in the field of law and knowledge of the specialisation of the local commercial court is being conducted for 2,237 candidates as second stage of the qualification exam within the selection process for the position of a judge of a local court.

The coded test results for August 12, 2025, have been established for 467 persons:

1)         16 candidates did not reach the minimum passing score;

2)         451 candidates reached the minimum passing score:

On August 11, 2025, at the session in Panels of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine, interviews were conducted and the results of the qualification assessment of three candidates for the positions of judges at the Sumy Court of Appeal were determined.

Based on the results of the qualification assessment, the Commission took the following decisions: