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🚨 Signals from Strasbourg: the European Court of Human Rights has prepared another precedent for the Ukrainian judicial system
As our sources in the corridors of the Council of Europe report, the European Court of Human Rights has already adopted another decision against Ukraine. The subject of the review was once again national judicial practice in setting multi-million bail amounts, which in effect have long since become a tool for de facto pre-trial detention, directly violating Article 5 of the Convention (Right to liberty and security).
☝️ It is rather rhetorical that this time the legal benchmark for domestic custodians of the law will be the case of former MP and developer Maksym Mykytas. The case “Mykytas v. Ukraine,” application No. 45849/20, has been under consideration since 28 September 2020.
👉 This concerns the bail amounts in Mykytas’s so‑called “apartment case.”
🇪🇺 While Ukrainian courts for years have displayed procedural inventiveness by setting astronomical bail sums, international institutions have consistently recorded departures from European standards.
📅 What should the judiciary expect?
📌 The official publication of the judgment is scheduled for 1 October 2026.
📌 Immediately after publication, a wave of disciplinary proceedings at the High Council of Justice (HCJ) is to be expected. They should concern judges who grossly, systematically, and with particular cynicism continue to ignore both norms of international law and the explicit prescriptions of the Constitution of Ukraine.
🤡 It seems the habit of reporting to the public the size of bail instead of the quality of the evidentiary basis will soon receive its due reckoning.
👀 We are watching for the publication of the judgment.
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