On 24 April, the Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights participated online in the XI. Annual International Scientific and Practical Conference on current challenges in the justice system, co-organised by three Ukrainian universities, the National Yaroslav Mudry University, Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University as well as National University Odesa Law Academy.
The Department’s intervention focused on the direct links between the execution of judgments of the European Court, the need to strengthen judicial remedies for allegations of human rights breaches at national level and Ukraine's EU accession process.
Several groups of cases pending before the Committee of Ministers were discussed: the long-standing systemic problem of non-enforcement of domestic court judgments and the absence of effective remedies in this regard (Ivanov/Zhovner and Burmych group); the lack of an effective remedy for excessive length of proceedings (Merit and Svetlana Naumenko groups); poor conditions of detention and the lack of effective preventive and compensatory remedies in this respect (Sukachov/Nevmerzhitsky and Logvinenko groups); the lack of judicial remedies for cases relating to the right to liberty and security (Chanyev / Ignatov group).
