The reform of the court system includes the full reboot of judiciaries, an open tender for posts using the new police enrollment system, a three-stage court system, and the removal of political influence on the selection of judges or the prosecution of judges.
“The first and basic principle of court reform which the government proposes is that the whole judge system and all judiciaries are to be rebooted,” Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said on the TV program “Ten Minutes with the Prime Minister” on Oct. 25 night.
He said that the government has proposed that judges such be selected using the same system as the new Ukrainian police enrollment.
Yatsenyuk said that 9,000 judges could be replaced.
“Every year 12,000 lawyers graduate from our educational institutions. Now there are 40,000 lawyers in Ukraine. We have a potential to create the new independent court system of Ukraine, as we’re creating the new National police,” he said.
The government also proposed that instead of a four-stage court system a three-stage system should be used instead.
“We believe that the current court system is too complicated. People are waiting for a final ruling for years,” he said.
Yatsenyuk said that the first stage is the local courts where the lion’s share of cases should be settled and cases should be not postponed for dozens of years. The second stage is the courts of appeal which could hear relevant court cases. The third stage is the Supreme Court.
