26 Mar, 2018
Legal Think Tanks and Governments Capacity Building Report is finally published
Reports from six CEE countries (Czechia, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine) prove that despite local differences, there are similar challenges pertaining to interactions between think tanks and governments.
This report presents common conclusions offered by selected LTTs based on their experience, best practices and recommendations
21 Mar, 2018
Establishing the Anticorruption Court in Ukraine: How to Not Make It an Instrument of the Corrupt Officials
The first most important question is the selection of judges, which needs to be organized in a manner that only the experts who secured unanimous support from representatives of the public, the international partners, and lastly from the Ukrainian government bodies could become anticorruption judges. CPLR experts, Roman Kuybida and Mykola Khavroniuk, explained the crucial aspects could still be taken into account during the revisions of the draft law on anticorruption court
21 Feb, 2018
4 positions in the Constitutional Court remain vacant for a long time, 2 – by the Verkhovna Rada and 2 – by the President
The President needs to immediately exercise his personnel authorities regarding the appointment of 2 judges of the Constitutional Court based on the results of a competitive selection. In other words, two candidates with the highest rating of the competition commission leaving other candidates far behind (S. Golovatyi, V. Lemak) should be appointed
20 Feb, 2018
On the way to building a service state
Over the last decade the culture of communication between citizens and officials in Ukraine has begun to actively develop and gradually move to a new quality level. Despite significant progress, the fight against bureaucracy in the area of provision of administrative services is still ongoing. What problem we have and how to solve them?