Bar Council of Ukraine chooses three candidates for competition commission to select HQCJ members
The Bar Council of Ukraine (BCU) has chosen three candidates for the competition commission for the selection of members of the High Qualification Commission of Judges (HQCJ).
As reported by the Sudovo-Yurydychna Gazeta, the council selected Oleksiy Shevchuk, Hanna Kolesnyk and Oksana Kadenko as candidates.
The BCU adopted the corresponding decision on August 12.
The candidacies will be submitted for consideration by the High Council of Justice, since the BCU quota is one place.
Oksana Kadenko is a representative of lawyers of Khmelnytsky region at the BCU, the head of the Committee of the Ukrainian National Bar Association (UNBA) on free legal aid, the deputy head of the UNBA Committee on anti-corruption policy and compliance.
Hanna Kolesnyk is the head of the UNBA Committee on Human Rights Protection, temporarily acts as the head of the Kyiv City Bar Council, and is the founder of the Ukrainian public organization Association of lawyers providing Free Legal Aid.
Oleksiy Shevchuk is the speaker of the UNBA and the head of the UNBA Committee on Information Policy.
The term of office of the first composition of the Competition Commission for the selection of members of the HQCJ expired on June 1, 2025. In the first composition of the HQCJ, the deciding vote was held by international experts.
The second composition of the HQCJ Competition Commission should include three persons from among the judges or retired judges proposed by the Council of Judges of Ukraine, one person proposed by the Council of Prosecutors of Ukraine, one person proposed by the Bar Council of Ukraine, and one person proposed by the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine represented by the Presidium.
