The Advisory Group of Experts (AGE) has received from the Parliament and Council of Judges of Ukraine all the documents of the candidates whom these nominating agencies admitted to the competitive selection of judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU).
Currently, there are five vacant positions of CCU judges: three by the Parliament's quota and two by the quota of the Congress of Ukrainian Judges.
On 29 November 2023, AGE received from the Council of Judges of Ukraine documents on the following 16 candidates:
(1) Ihor Bychkov, judge, Kovpakivsky Raion Court of the city of Sumy;
(2) Oksana Blazhivska, judge, Commercial Court of the City of Kyiv;
(3) Olena Volkova, judge, Yuzhnoukrainsky City Court of Mykolaiv Oblast;
(4) Olesia Halamay, judge, Commercial Court of Lviv Oblast;
(5) Nataliya Denysenko, Deputy Director of the Department for Comparative-and-Legal Analysis – Manager of the Office for Comparative Studies of the Legal Department of the CCU Secretariat;
(6) Vadym Ihnatenko, Justice, Supreme Court Cassation Civil Court;
(7) Larysa Korunchak, Associate Professor, Chair of Criminal Law and Other Criminal-and-Legal Subjects, Mykolaiv Institute of Law as part of National University "Odesa Law Academy";
(8) Olexandr Korovaiko, Chief Judge, Kherson Appellate Court;
(9) Serhiy Martiev, Justice, Supreme Court Grand Chamber;
(10) Alla Oliynyk, Justice, Supreme Court Cassation Civil Court;
(11) Nataliya Panchenko, Judge, Kyiv Circuit Administrative Court;
(12) Oleh Pecheny, Associate Professor, Civil Law Chair, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University;
(13) Olexandr Prokopenko, Justice, Supreme Court Grand Chamber;
(14) Volodymyr Ratush, attorney;
(15) Olexandr Tkachenko, Judge, Commercial Court of Mykolaiv Oblast;
(16) Olexandra Yanovska, Justice, Supreme Court Cassation Criminal Court.
On 07 December 2023, AGE received from the Parliament of Ukraine documents on the following 25 candidates:
(1) Liubomyr Andreychuk, Judge, Commercial Court of Zakarpatska Oblast;
(2) Yuri Barabash, Professor at the Constitutional Law Chair, Vice-Rector for Research-and-Pedagogical Work and Strategic Development of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University;
(3) Andriy Boiko, Professor of the Chair for Criminal and Criminal Procedural Law, National University "Kyiv Mohyla Academy";
(4) Olexandr Vodiannikov, National Legal Advisory of the OSCE Project Co‑ordinator in Ukraine;
(5) Mykola Voinarivsky, Judge and Acting Chief Judge, Mykolaiv Raion Court of Mykolaiv Oblast;
(6) Nataliya Denysenko, Deputy Director of the Department for Comparative-and-Legal Analysis – Manager of the Office for Comparative Studies of the Legal Department of the CCU Secretariat;
(7) Nataliya Kaminska, Professor of the Chair for International Law and Comparative Legal Science, International Relations Department, National Aviation University;
(8) Olexandra Karmaza, Member of the Central Election Commission;
(9) Yulia Kyrychenko, Member of the Board of the Centre of Policy and Legal Reform, Senior Lawyer at LEXFOR Legal Firm;
(10) Olexandr Kopylenko, People's Deputy of Ukraine, Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on External Policy and Interparliamentary Cooperation;
(11) Pavlo Liubchenko, Member of the Central Election Commission;
(12) Serhiy Martiev, Justice, Supreme Court Grand Chamber;
(13) Maxym Muzyka, Judge, Commercial Court of Khmelnytsk Oblast;
(14) Ivan Nazarok, Deputy Head, National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance;
(15) Pavlo Pavlish, People's Deputy of Ukraine, Deputy Head of the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Policy;
(16) Nataliya Panchenko, Judge, Kyiv Circuit Administrative Court;
(17) Olexandr Radutny, Associate Professor at the Criminal Law Chair, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University;
(18) Serhiy Riznyk, Professor at the Constitutional Law Chair, Vice-Rector on Research-and-Pedagogical Work and International Cooperation, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv;
(19) Ihor Rohatiuk, Professor at the Chair for Criminal Process and Forensics, Research Humanitarian Institute of the National Academy of the Security Service of Ukraine;
(20) Mykhailo Savchyn, Professor at the Chair for Administrative, Financial, and Informational Law, Uzhgorod National University;
(21) Roman Tytykalo, Attorney, Manager Partner of Tytykalo and Partners law firm;
(22) Taras Tsymbalystyi, Prosecutor, Office of Prosecutor General;
(23) Tetiana Shynkar, Judge, The Eighth Appellate Administrative Court;
(24) Oksana Shcherbaniuk, Professor, Justice Chair at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University;
(25) Roman Yaromeniuk, Senior Detective, National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine.
Overall, AGE has received documents on 41 candidates. Three of them – Nataliya Denysenko, Serhiy Martiev, and Nataliya Panchenko – are nominated simultaneously by the Parliament and Council of Judges of Ukraine. Another candidate, Larysa Korunchak, filed an application for termination of her participation in the competitive selection process after AGE had received the documents.
Therefore, in view that one candidate has withdrawn from the competition and three people are nominated simultaneously by the Parliament and Congress of Judges of Ukraine, currently there are 37 candidates for 5 vacancies.
Pursuant to the Law of Ukraine on Constitutional Court of Ukraine, the four-month period envisaged for considering and reviewing documents and materials about these candidates began on 28 November 2023 and 07 December 2023.
During this period, AGE will conduct public interviews with the candidates which will be streamed on AGE pages and CCU web site.
We hereby encourage everyone to send to AGE information and materials about compliance / non‑compliance of one or another candidate the CCU judge position with the criteria of high moral qualities and level of competence in the sphere of law.
Please be advised that the Advisory Group of Experts will not consider information received from anonymous sources and materials the origin of which cannot be established.
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