Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine
Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance
Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
Luxembourg Centre for European Law
Luxembourg Centre for Socio-Environmental Systems
On 04 July 2024, the Luxembourg Centre for European Law held a workshop “The path to the European Union: Current Challenges for the Ukrainian Judicial System“.
The event was attended by a member of the High Council of Justice of Ukraine Alla Kotelevets, President of the Kharkiv Court of Appeal Olena Grosheva, President of the Kharkiv District Administrative Court Mykhailo Spiridonov, President of the Second Administrative Court of Appeal Armen Begunts, President of the Lviv District Administrative Court Andriy Lankevych, Judge of the Prymorskyi District Court Kateryna Lagoda and others.
Prof. Pierre-Henri Conac, Acting Director of the centre, and Dr Serhii Kravtsov, postdoctoral resarchers, made an opening speech, welcoming all participants and wishing them a fruitful discussion.
Presentations & Discussions
During the workshop, Alla Kotelevets, a member of the High Council of Justice, outlined the current issues of the specifics of bringing judges to disciplinary responsibility under martial law. During the lively discussion, Former Head of the Unit Establishment and Settlement of Entitlements, Court of Justice of the EU Costas Popotas shared the experience of Greece and other countries in bringing judges to disciplinary responsibility and suggested ways to improve Ukrainian legislation.
Particularly noteworthy is Jurgis Bartkus’ presentation on “Challenges to the judicial decision-making in the Supreme Court of Lithuania”, which covered the peculiarities of evidentiary activities in civil cases.
These standards of proof will be most useful for Ukraine in its negotiations to become a member of the European Union. Also, the presentation of Aisel Omarova “Commission on juvenile affairs in the Ukrainian SSR as an alternative to criminal justice” was no less interesting.
The participants of this workshop, being professional judges in Ukraine, shared their own professional experience on the possibility of applying European Union standards of justice and outlined a number of problematic issues that should be addressed for further procedure of unification of national legislation to sustainable European standards.
