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The wife of the Deputy Chair of the HQCJ successfully passed the HQCJ interview for the Kyiv Court of Appeal
We have another “unexpected” result from the personnel selection for a judge’s position.
The HQCJ panel No.2 (Lyudmyla Volkova, Roman Kydysiuk, Ruslan Sydorovych) found Halyna Koliush to have confirmed her ability to administer justice in an appellate court. With a result of 723 points she took a decisive step toward the position of judge of the Kyiv Court of Appeal.
This candidate is the wife of HQCJ Deputy Chair Oleh Koliush.
During the interview, HQCJ members Sydorovych, Volkova, and Kydysiuk turned a blind eye to a number of dubious facts:
🔹practically no experience: the candidate’s judicial service is less than 5 years, and since 2021 she has not been hearing cases at all. She was repeatedly denied secondment to Kyiv before due to a “critical workload” at the Oleksandriia court, yet this did not prevent her from being seconded for many years to the National School of Judges (NSJ), which is directly subordinate to the HQCJ;
🔹while abroad with her son, Koliush was formally still seconded to the NSJ and did not administer justice. The panel accepted the explanation about violating restrictions for judges purely on a formal basis;
🔹the Koliushes continue to use a huge state-provided residence paid for by taxpayers — an apartment of 150 sq. m. The family was previously given such housing because they had several children. Now the adult children live separately. Koliush explains that they still need the large apartment because “they may return someday.”
🔹discussions of criminal and administrative cases concerning the candidate’s son, Vadym Solozhenkov, despite obvious public interest, were simply closed to the public. So too were questions about Halyna Koliush’s connections with Irpin court judge Yana Shestopalova.
Notably, it was Shestopalova who halted the criminal proceedings concerning the Koliushes’ son due to mobilization, even though he was mobilized 2 years before the proceedings were opened. And, by the way, Judge Shestopalova also successfully passed the interview for the Kyiv Court of Appeal in that same HQCJ panel No.2.
It seems some members of the HQCJ and HCSC have a golden rule: if you are a relative of a commission member or close to the “circle,” a green light is guaranteed.
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