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Automatically translated version. May contain inaccuracies compared to the original.
Today the High Council of Justice sent the scandalously notorious judge Larysa Holnyk to dismissal.
As follows from the materials of the disciplinary case, Holnyk, using her position and having full access to the Unified State Register of Court Decisions (USRCD), reviewed closed decisions of her colleague judges in that register.
We quote the ruling of the First Disciplinary Panel of the High Council of Justice when opening the disciplinary case:
“Circumstances established by the First Disciplinary Panel of the High Council of Justice:
14 March 2025 of the year Judge Holnyk L.V. and PERSON1 appealed to the High Council of Justice with a disciplinary complaint regarding Judge N.V. Timoshenko of the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Poltava during the consideration of three cases, in particular case No. 554/7674/23 brought by PERSON2 against PERSON3 concerning determination of the child’s place of residence.
The disciplinary complaint states that on 8 September 2023 of the year Judge Timoshenko N.V. issued an order to consider case No. 554/7674/23 in a closed court session.
On the basis of that order, access in the USRCD to the documents adopted in that case was restricted, information about the case participants was hidden, and information about them was not reflected in the automated case distribution report for that case.
On 21 September 2023 of the year a ruling was issued in the case, the details of which are reflected in the text of the disciplinary complaint submitted by Judge Holnyk L.V. and PERSON1 to the High Council of Justice.
The disciplinary complaint contains information about the circumstances that formed the basis for determining the residence of the minor child, the parties’ participation in the court hearing, the plaintiff’s and his representative’s explanations, witness testimony, information about the recovery of alimony, an assessment of Judge Timoshenko N.V.’s actions during the case, an assessment of written evidence, including a certificate from the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine regarding the respondent’s border crossings.
The State Enterprise “ISS” by letter dated 27 June 2025 of the year No. 3417/4/11-00-25 provided a list of persons who had full-access review in the USRCD of the decision of the Oktyabrskyi District Court of the city of Poltava dated 21 September 2023 of the year in case No. 554/7674/23 for the period from 21 September 2023 of the year to 7 May 2025 of the year.
From the provided information it was established that Judge Holnyk L.V. reviewed that decision in the USRCD in full-access mode using her judge’s login twice: on 3 October 2024 of the year and on 28 February 2025 of the year.”
In other words, Holnyk filed a disciplinary complaint against another judge of her own court. To do that, she accessed that judge’s decision by using her position as a judge.
Holnyk also extracted confidential information from that judge’s decision (which had been closed to the general public) and facilitated its dissemination among an unspecified circle of persons for her own interests.
At the same time the decision concerned a minor child.
It is entirely logical that the High Council of Justice decided to dismiss Holnyk, because other judges have been dismissed for the same reason.
Overall, a review of the court decisions register for all judges should have been done long ago, and those who use it for personal interests should be dismissed.
The law must be the same for everyone. Regardless of the surname.”
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