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The untouchable caste or a theatre of the absurd called “institutional resilience”🎭
Recently, on the anniversary of the High Anti-Corruption Court’s establishment, the notorious Chair of the High Council of Justice, Hryhoriy Usyk, once again showered compliments. Allegedly, over years of procedural work the HACC has proven its “high level of professionalism, institutional resilience, which is a guarantor of success.”
Sounds good? Undoubtedly. But the devil, as always, is in the details that the leadership of the judiciary prefers to keep silent about.
So what is the cynicism of this “resilience”?
🛑 Mutual protection and a taboo on disciplinary actions:
While praises ring from the podiums, reality shows that the High Council of Justice has effectively created an untouchable cocoon around certain judges. Disciplinary complaints against “necessary” or loyal servants of the judiciary are regularly dismissed on artificial and formal grounds. Instead of cleansing the system, we see its preservation.
🤝 Cases that speak for themselves:
🔥Judge Saliy: instead of a fair investigation and disciplinary accountability, the judge quietly and “silently” resigned (keeping all substantial lifelong payments from the state).
🔥“Fraudster judge” Holnyk: who is reasonably accused of violating judicial ethics on social media, having conflicts with colleagues, illegally collecting and publishing closed personal data of third parties, and publicly discrediting international figures.
Cases and complaints against such “public” judges are demonstratively ignored or blocked at the level of HCoJ members, who have personally established an unspoken taboo on real punishment for “their own.”
🦃Praising grant-dependent friends and disgraced judges for “professionalism” is a convenient tactic for creating a favorable image before international partners. But for Ukrainian society, this theatre of the absurd has long been obvious.
‼️Judicial reform will happen only when institutional resilience means the inevitability of punishment, not the resilience of corrupt ties.
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