On June 10, 2024, the plenary session of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine considered the issue of suitability a judge of the Commercial Court of Donetsk Oblast Hanna Levshyna for her position.
Based on the results of the meeting, the Commission decided to recognize judge of the Commercial Court of Donetsk Oblast Hanna Levshyna as suitable for the position held.
On June 07, 2024, the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine held a public discussion of proposals and comments to the draft Regulation on the procedure for passing the qualification exam and the methodology for evaluating candidates.
On June 06, 2024, the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine conducted a briefing at which the members of the Commission summarized the results of the first year of work and identified priorities in their activities.
During this period, the Commission held 334 meetings and considered 874 issues (224 – in meetings of the First and Second Chambers; 299 – in panels; 351 – in plenary sessions).
On June 05, 2024, the second meeting of the Steering Committee of the Council of Europe Action Plan for Ukraine “Resilience, Recovery and Reconstruction” was organized by the Council of Europe Office in Ukraine with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. The High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine was represented by the Deputy Chairman of the Commission Ruslan Sydorovych, and member of the Commission Oleh Koliush.
On June 03, 2024, during the meeting of the Deputy Chairman of the Commission Ruslan Sydorovych with the Leading Anti-Corruption and Rule of Law Specialist of the Department of Democracy and Governance at the USAID Mission to Ukraine Jay Totte, Chief of Party of the USAID “Justice for All” Program David Vaughn and the Program’s legal advisor Marta Hlomb, the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine received equipment for media classes from the Program under the international technical assistance
On June 4, 2024, the Panel of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine, at its meeting, held interviews and determined the results of the qualification evaluation of three local court judges.
Based on the results of the qualification evaluation for the compliance with the position held, the Commission made the following decisions:
On June 6, 2024, the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine will hold a press briefing “The First Year of the work of the new composition of the HQCJU” with the participation of Deputy Chairman of the Commission Ruslan Sydorovych, Secretary of the First Chamber Ruslan Melnyk, Secretary of the Second Chamber Serhii Chumak, members of the Commission Nadiia Kobetska and Roman Sabodash.
The briefing starts at 15:00.
Venue: High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine (Kyiv, 9 General Shapoval St.).
On May 31, 2024, the International Scientific and Practical Conference “Legal Conflicts in the Application of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms” was held in Lviv, organized jointly by the Supreme Court and the OSCE Support Program for Ukraine within the framework of the Project “Assisting the Supreme Court and higher courts in implementing judicial reform and ensuring access to justice in times of war”.
To implement part one of Article 79-5 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Judiciary and the Status of Judges”, the Commission has completed interviews with 434 candidates for the positions of judges within the competition for 560 vacant positions of judges in local courts announced on September 14, 2023.
On May 27, 2024, the plenary session of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine considered the issue of suitability of judges of local and appellate courts for their positions held.
Based on the results of the meeting, the Commission made the following decisions:
