On August 04, 2025, the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine, in plenary session, considered the issue of confirming the ability of eight candidates for the position of judge to administer justice in the Commercial Court of Appeal and two candidates in the Zhytomyr Court of Appeal.

Based on the results of the session, the Commission adopted the following decisions:

Please be informed, that on August 04, 2025, the Commission adopted a decision approving the procedure for submitting applications by candidates for vacant positions of judges in the administrative and commercial courts of appeal within the framework of the competition announced by the Commission’s decision No. 94/zp-23 of September 14, 2023 (as amended), applications for the position of judge, specifying the specific court.

The testing of general knowledge in the field of law and knowledge of the specialisation of the relevant court, scheduled by the Commission on July 25, 2025, as part of the qualification exam for candidates for the position of local court judge and for judges intending to be transferred to another local court, will be held from August 05 to August 26, 2025, at two locations:

According to part one of Article 55 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Judiciary and the Status of Judges”, a judge may, with his or her consent, be seconded to another court of the same level and specialisation to administer justice by a decision of the High Council of Justice adopted on the basis of a submission from the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine.

On August 01, 2025, the Second Chamber of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine held interviews and determined the results of the qualification evaluation of four candidates for the positions of judges of the commercial courts of appeal.

Based on the results of the qualification assessment, the Commission made the following decisions:

According to part one of Article 55 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Judiciary and the Status of Judges”, a judge may, with his or her consent, be seconded to another court of the same level and specialisation to administer justice by a decision of the High Council of Justice adopted on the basis of a submission from the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine.

On July 30, 2025, the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine, in plenary session, considered the issue of confirming the ability of three candidates for the position of judge to administer justice in the administrative court of appeal and three candidates in the commercial court of appeal.

Based on the results of the session, the Commission adopted the following decisions:

On July 30, 2025, at the session of the First Chamber of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine, the issue of secondment and early termination of secondment of judges with their simultaneous secondment was considered.

On July 29, 2025, at the session of the Second Chamber of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine, interviews were held and the results of the qualification assessment of five candidates for the positions of judges of the commercial courts of appeal were determined.

Based on the results of the qualification assessment, the Commission adopted the following decisions:

On July 29, 2025, at the sessions of the Panels of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine, interviews were held and the results of the qualification assessment of five candidates for the positions of judges of the Sumy Court of Appeal were determined.

Based on the results of the qualification assessment, the Commission made the following decisions: