"Separatists" and Russian soldiers who commit crimes in the Donbas military zone get much lighter sentences than Ukrainian soldiers, and this has nothing to do with any difference in the gravity of their crimes, the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group wrote.
On December 15, the new Supreme Court of Ukraine has started its operations, while new editions of the Economic Procedural Code, the Civil Procedure Code and the Code of Administrative Proceedings have come into force as well, according to Radio Liberty.
National Security Officer at the Council for the Judiciary in the Netherlands Cees Tax, who has overall responsibility for the security of Dutch courts, says that the current framework for defending courts in Ukraine is inadequate.
Transparency International has called on the Ukrainian authorities to create an independent anti-corruption court as part of Ukraine's legal obligations and its commitments to the EU and the International Monetary Fund.
The Delegation of the European Union in Ukraine in its statement published on Facebook Tuesday, September 12, suggests that the appointment of judges with stained reputation could compromise the credibility of Ukraine’s judicial reform.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) of Ukraine has said that the decisions were taken only on 23 out of 86 cases submitted by the NABU and the Special Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) to court, while just 17 verdicts entered into legal force, the NABU's press service told UNIAN.
The European Union has agreed to the idea to set up a Special Anti-Corruption Chamber within the framework of the existing judicial system instead of establishing a separate Anti-Corruption Court in Ukraine, that’s according to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker who spoke at a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and EU Council President Donald Tusk.