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Competition for the courts that will replace OASK: a Toyota Venza for 5 thousand UAH and a dissertation the candidate could hardly talk about
This week interviews began as part of the competitions for judges of the Specialized District Administrative Court and the Specialized Appellate Administrative Court.
These are the courts being created to replace the liquidated District Administrative Court of Kyiv.
One of the candidates for the appellate instance is Judge Serhiy Borzanytsia of the Luhansk District Administrative Court (in the photo), who is seconded to the Khmelnytskyi District Administrative Court.
During the interview, the candidate, to put it mildly, surprised everyone present with his answers.
📌 In particular, Borzanytsia was asked about a Toyota Venza 2014 year of manufacture, purchased in June 2021.
According to the judge, the car cost 5 050 UAH, which is approximately 186 dollars.
For context: a Toyota Venza 2014 year on the secondary market now costs about 15 thousand dollars.
But the candidate answered that the car was purchased by his wife on the basis of his power of attorney, so all questions should be directed to her.
📌 This is not the only question for the judge. In December 2022, Borzanytsia defended a dissertation and obtained the academic degree of candidate of legal sciences.
He was asked about the path he took to the academic degree, the exams he passed, and his preparation for the dissertation defense. But Borzanytsia was essentially unable to answer any of the questions.
In particular, he could not recall the circumstances of preparing and publishing the scholarly articles that were supposed to have preceded the dissertation defense.
And stories like this once again raise the question: should the state automatically pay a judge extra solely for having a PhD or doctoral degree?
Perhaps it is time to seriously review the system of supplements and exclude the automatic increase of a judge's remuneration based solely on the mere presence of an academic degree.