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Theatre of the Absurd at the HCMC: how the capital’s judicial “tsars” are destroying a displaced judge from Melitopol ⚖️🎭
Remember the outrageous story about how the Kyiv Court of Appeal reviewed its own appeal in order to cancel lawful access to documents for investigators?
https://t.me/officeofjudicalcleansing/1328
Well, that legal trash had the expected, though no less disgusting, continuation. The High Council of Justice did take up a crackdown on investigative judge Lesia Kovalevska of the Fastiv District Court, who simply did her job well.
⚖️At the hearing on 21 October the Disciplinary Chamber of the HCMC predictably could not “eat” the judge in one gulp and announced a pause until November. Obviously, the scale of the absurdity weighs on them too. But the details of the behind-the-scenes games are simply striking.
🔥 Selfie-justice, or how to “fix” a case
While the judge’s fate is being decided, the complainant — Head of the Kyiv Court of Appeal Yaroslav Holovachov — and members of the Disciplinary Chamber of the HCMC don’t care at all about procedural ethics. Literally a week ago they were spotted... taking group photos! (In the photo ☝️ in the upper left corner. Do not confuse him with the marked-arrowed beekeeper Moroz, who got stuck and wanders about idle — no longer a member, but not yet a judge).
Does this remind you of anything? It’s the classic scheme where the notorious complainant-litigant Roman Maselko used to pose arm-in-arm with the rapporteur on his complaint, HCMC member Tetiana Bondarenko.
https://t.me/officeofjudicalcleansing/1053
When the complainant and HCMC members drink coffee together and take group photos before the hearing, what independence and impartiality of the HCMC can even be talked about?
🔨 Their own — everything; “outsiders” — disciplinary action?
The greatest cynicism of the situation is WHO exactly became the victim of this attack. Judge Lesia Kovalevska is a displaced person from occupied Melitopol. She did not betray her oath, did not cooperate with the enemy, relocated to Ukrainian-controlled territory and continued to administer justice honestly. And instead of state support, the local judicial mafia is trying to publicly punish the refugee judge for her principles, to intimidate and “break” all other lower-court judges.
‼️ At the same time, the HCMC stubbornly ignores the main violators. Proceedings against the trio of CAS judges (Yurdyha O., Frych T., Melnyk V.), who spat on the principle “no one can be a judge in their own case,” ignored the mandatory recusal and handed down that shameful decision, have still NOT BEEN OPENED. The HCMC is in no hurry to show initiative regarding the capital’s top judges.
📆We await November. The public and the legal community are watching the HCMC members’ hands closely. An attempt to appease the judicial “barons” and punish an honest judge from the occupied territories will be the final verdict for judicial reform.
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