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A new low for the judicial system: the Kyiv Court of Appeal overturns a decision... of itself! 🤯
This story is so wild it surprised even seasoned attorneys and lawyers.
In a town outside Kyiv, investigators needed signature samples for an examination. The original documents were kept in the files of another case that was under appellate review in the capital. By an order of the Fastiv District Court (from 19.02.2025 in case No. 381/2915/24), investigators were granted temporary access to documents with the signatures of three defendants, with the ability to seize the originals (replaced by copies so as not to harm the proceedings).
https://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/125266336
An entirely lawful order, and we recall how some judges once removed entire cases from courts with no disciplinary consequences.
But when investigators came to the Kyiv Court of Appeal, real wonders began. The court decided to show its “exceptionalism” (which had been somewhat exposed by NABU detectives in the case of the coffee-drinking judges) and stage a powerful legally baseless exclusive.
‼️Chronicle of legal absurdity:
📌07.03.2025 — the Kyiv Court of Appeal, represented by Chair Yaroslav Holovachov, files an appeal... on behalf of the Kyiv Court of Appeal itself against an order that is not appealable at all! Allegedly, the court is special, nothing may be seized, and the order is not specific.
https://www.kas.gov.ua/CourtPortal.WebSite/Home/Sprava/51229302425
📌The panel of judges composed of Yurdyha O., Frych T., and Melnyk V. was initially bewildered that the court should consider a complaint against itself, and referred the matter to the Supreme Court.
📌By a ruling of the Supreme Court dated 03.04.2025, the bribe-taking judge Iryna Hryhorieva together with judges Ostapchuk and Bilyk formally “sanction” this theater of the absurd, because the court’s submission is unsubstantiated‼️, and there is no evidence that the judges filed recusals.
https://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/126328849
📌06.05.2025 — the panel of the Kyiv Court of Appeal does not recuse itself, but grants the complaint... of the Kyiv Court of Appeal and cancels the lawful order of the investigating judge. Apparently nobody has heard of the principle “no one may be a judge in their own case” or of the possibility to file a recusal.
https://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/127304846
🔥🔥🔥The obvious manifestation of bias is shown by the fact that such orders are not subject to appeal, by which the judges gave their own court preference above the law.
❓And what next?
Feeling unaccountable and exceptional, Chair Yaroslav Holovachov goes further and files a disciplinary complaint on behalf of the court, relying on this same arbitrary order. And what do you think? 22.07.2026 The High Council of Justice opens disciplinary proceedings against Fastiv District Court judge Kovalievska L.M., with the hearing already scheduled for 21.10.2026!
https://hcj.gov.ua/doc/doc/60404
Everything described resembles a complete oxymoron and high-grade legal nihilism.
📌 Our proposal: We call on members of the Third Disciplinary Panel of the High Council of Justice to open, on their own initiative, a disciplinary complaint against Kyiv Court of Appeal judges Yurdyha O., Frych T., and Melnyk V., who, with gross violation of recusal rules, reviewed a complaint of their own court and annulled a judicial act that in 100% of other cases in the country is not subject to any appeal.
And if the High Council of Justice wants to performatively punish the investigating judge on someone’s order, note that 90% of Pechersk Court’s orders on searches contain less specificity about the property that may be seized than Kovalievska’s order.
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