Kapustin Aleksandr. Immediate steps of judicial reform in Ukraine
Social Sciences / Law / International law
Submitted on: Feb 24, 2020, 15:00:59
Description: The United State Agency for International Development (USAID), the Center of the European researches, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), OSCE, the Council of Europe, GRECO carried out the Ukrainian reforms project and other projects together with the Ukrainian authorities, allocated the huge amounts of money to Ukraine for carrying out reforms in the field of the right. Dull haste of the previous power led to the fact that for universal dismissal of judges and enrollment for work of new personnel in courts: many courts operating in Ukraine, including the Supreme Court of Ukraine were liquidated. As now, it is visible from the decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine that the reforms were undertaken contrary to provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine. Therefore, with the Decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine N 2-p/2020 dated 18.02.2020 we state new and rather next collision of reforming of the right in Ukraine. All this is absolutely and certainly reflected in the constitutional guarantees of independence of judges, affects both prestige and trust of citizens to judicial authority and morale of judges. Monetary grants of the international donors are once again spent by the authorities of Ukraine not reasonably and not effectively. In inferior courts, some citizens dare to pour paint in buildings of the courts over judges, to spit the Themis's representatives. Periodically the power of Ukraine tries to review (reduce) the monetary reward to judges. As we have noticed it above, all this affects both prestige of employees of the court, and trust of citizens to Themis. The personnel hunger in courts of Ukraine is catastrophic; courts due to the lack of judges are systematically closed. The reformed procedural legislation provides the introduction of the institute of jurymen; however, citizens do not want to be directly involved in sentences of justice and everywhere personnel hunger in the matter is seen. The immediate measures proposed in this wor...