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The High Qualification Commission of Judges (HQCJ) has finished reviewing the completion of the practical assignment by candidates for judges of local general courts.
Recall that this stage of the qualification exam took place back in October–November 2025.
At that time, 2 660 candidates for the position of local court judge and 191 judge were admitted to complete the practical assignment.
Yesterday the results were established for the practical assignment performed by 2 834 persons (17 – did not appear) for the specialization of the local general court, of which:
scored the passing mark – 2 253 persons (i.e., 79,5%);
did not score the passing mark – 581 person (20,5%).
Thus, 2834 the Commission checked the works for approximately 9 months.
Counting only working days, the figure comes out to 15–16 reviewed works per day.
At the same time, the HQCJ was conducting the second wave of the competition for appellate general courts, competitions for the Specialized Anti-Corruption Court (SACC), and for higher specialized administrative courts.
This raises the logical question about the advisability of the continued existence of the mechanism of reviewing practical works specifically by members of the HQCJ.
Competitions have been going on for years, and the results do not directly translate into a significant increase in appointed judges, even though less than 10 months remain until the end of the term of this composition of the HQCJ.
Given that these are candidates for the first instance, we believe that their practical works (in fact, draft judicial decisions) could quite reasonably be reviewed in coded form by judges of the appellate courts.
Then the number of reviewed works per day would be counted not in single digits but in the hundreds. And the competitions would last not years, but within a year.
Decoded results of the candidates are here: https://tinyurl.com/5n6hk7tm
