On 22 February 2018, the round table “The reopening of judicial proceedings as a measure for the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights: standards of the Council of Europe and the practice of the Supreme Court” took place in Kyiv, Ukraine. The event was jointly organised by the Council of Europe project “Support to the implementation of the judicial reform in Ukraine” and the Supreme Court.

The round table was attended by judges of the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court, by the Deputy Minister of Justice – Government Agent before the European Court of Human Rights, by representatives of the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter – the ECtHR), of the Justice and Legal Co-operation Department, as well as by experts and representatives of the project “Support to the implementation of the judicial reform of Ukraine”.

The event was organised to discuss the procedure of the review by the Supreme Court of judicial decisions following judgments of the ECtHR. In some categories of cases, such a review is necessary for the full execution of ECtHR judgments in Ukraine. The procedure of the review is envisaged by the new procedural legislation of Ukraine, and the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court is entrusted with this task. Earlier, the practice of the Supreme Court of Ukraine as regards the review of the domestic judgments was analysed by the ECtHR in the cases “Bochan v. Ukraine (No. 2)”, “Yaremenko v. Ukraine (No. 2)”, “Shabelnik v. Ukraine (No. 2)”.

The participants of the round table discussed both the national legislation regulating the review procedure, and the practice of the Supreme Court in the cases filed before it under the amended legislation. The judges drew a special attention to the large number of application for the review of domestic judgments following the judgment of the ECtHR in the case of “Burmych and others v. Ukraine”.  

The Supreme Court and the Justice and Legal Co-operation Department of the Council of Europe will develop further the cooperation aimed at ensuring full, timely and effective execution of judgments of the ECtHR in Ukraine.

WEB LINKS TO THE SEMINAR

https://supreme.court.gov.ua/supreme/pres-centr/news/437573/ - the Supreme Court