Each court found a difficult balance between the professional duty and the protection of judges' lives.
Departure of authorities, including courts , this is a demotivating signal for citizens, which indicates that we must surrender, said the chairman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine Vsevolod Knyazev. He added that it is very difficult to predict which court may be under occupation and needs to be evacuated.
“Decisions on the evacuation of judges, police, SBU, district and city administrations are very complex decisions. And, according to the recommendations of the Supreme Court, they were to be received by court teams and territorial subdivisions of the State Judicial Administration in each specific settlement, given the current situation, “he said.
In particular, the recommendations place the primary emphasis on saving the lives of judges and court staff. However, each court had to find a balance between professional duty and protection of its own life
“We already went through this with DNR/LNR in 2014. I know many heads of courts who, until recently, ruled on the illegal actions of the occupiers in the occupied territories. I can't go out now and say: let's evacuate all courts just in case. This is probably the best solution from a security point of view. But it's worse in terms of influencing the morale of people who continue to stay in these territories and protect them, “the judge said.
Knyazev also said that some court staff who had to leave their homes had already been sheltered by colleagues. in western Ukraine, some were lucky enough to be housed in reserved shelters. European judges' associations, including Poland, Lithuania and Slovenia, also provide shelter.
“We were practically unable to remove the cases from the territories occupied at the very first stage of the war. Only thanks to the actions of the chairmen of the courts it was possible to take out documents on especially serious crimes and high-profile cases. Not everywhere, unfortunately. Moreover, we are talking about tens of thousands of cases, the removal of which requires a huge amount of transport. You know how we have with the humanitarian corridors and when the Russians came to their agreement. Kramatorsk, by the way, was also declared as a corridor. People would be taken out, not to mention things … “he said sadly.
The judge added that despite this, there are procedural mechanisms for reopening cases within the courts to which their jurisdiction has been transferred. Today, all VKKS and VSP reform processes are frozen. Some of the powers that are not specified in the Constitution have been transferred to the President of the Supreme Court.
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