On April 30, 2025, the Second Chamber of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine considered the issue of judges’ secondment and early termination of judges’ secondment with simultaneous secondment.
Due to the change in the territorial jurisdiction of court cases, the Commission decided to submit a submission to the High Council of Justice with a recommendation to second two judges of the Dzerzhynskyi Town Court of Donetsk Oblast for a one-year period:
- Yevhen Kachalenko to the Dnipropetrovskyi Raion Court of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast;
- Hanna Kachalenko to the Kirovskyi District Court of Dnipropetrovsk City.
The Commission decided to submit a submission to the High Council of Justice with a recommendation to early terminate the secondment and to extend it for a period of one year for the following judges:
- the judge of the Velykoburlutskyi Raion Court of Kharkiv Oblast Yuliia Podmarkova (secondment to Podilskyi District Court of Poltava City was terminated) to the Zmiivskyi Raion Court of Kharkiv Oblast;
- the judge of the Rubizhanskyi Town Court of Luhansk Oblast Viktoriia Moskalenko (secondment to Podilskyi District Court of Poltava City was terminated) to the Podilskyi District Court of Poltava City;
- the judge of the Rubizhanskyi Town Court of Luhansk Oblast Yurii Tkachuk (secondment to Podilskyi District Court of Poltava City was terminated) to the Podilskyi District Court of Poltava City;
- the judge of the Volodarskyi Raion Court of Donetsk Oblast Yevhen Podlipenets (secondment to Novhorodkivskyi Raion Court of Kirovohrad Oblast was terminated) to the to Novhorodkivskyi Raion Court of Kirovohrad Oblast.
Information on the current procedures for secondment and early termination of secondment (in Ukrainian), as well as early termination of secondment and simultaneous secondment of judges (in Ukrainian) carried out by the Commission, can be found in the subsection “Secondment of Judges” of the section “Activities” of the official website of the Commission.