Maternova welcomes appointment of new HQCJ member
The Ambassador of the European Union to Ukraine, Katarina Maternova, has welcomed the appointment of retired Supreme Court judge Ihor Kushnir to the position of member of the High Qualification Commission of Judges (HQCJ).
"Great news from @Kabmin_UA_e today. I welcome appointment of Oleksandr Tsyvinskyy as Director of ESBU — a key reform for 🇪🇺 accession & IMF benchmark. Another important step further building trust w/ society & international partners," Maternova wrote on the social network X on Tuesday.
As previously reported, the High Council of Justice (HCJ) appointed retired Supreme Court judge Ihor Kushnir to the position of member of the High Qualification Commission of Judges (HQCJ). According to an autobiographical note published on the HCJ website, Kushnir received a law degree in 1999 from the National Law Academy of Ukraine named after Yaroslav the Wise, worked as a prosecutor and assistant judge in the Chernihiv region. From 2004 to 2017, he was a judge of the Commercial Court of Chernihiv region, and from 2017 to 2020, he was a judge of the Supreme Court in the Commercial Court of Cassation.