Passport of the russian federation of Judge Lvov. Will they release the head of the Supreme Court, Kravchenko?

In the case of the former head of one of the cassation courts, Bogdan Lvov, a Russian passport was discovered. The esteemed judges of the Supreme Court immediately raised the issue of dismissal, and Lvov lost his position as the head of the Cassation Economic Court.

Now he wants to be reinstated in the Supreme Court as a judge, and is suing the same Supreme Court. Today at 11:00 AM, there will be a hearing in the Kyiv District Administrative Court.

Important!

Yesterday, a day before the court session, an influential interview with the head of the Supreme Court, Stanislav Kravchenko, was published on mind.ua.

This means it should be considered as something that might be intended to influence the court’s decision in favor of Lvov’s position.

There are several epic quotes in the interview that suggest there is nothing alarming about the possibility of a judge with a Russian passport being reinstated.

And it turns out, Lvov was dismissed because it was “Knyazev’s subjective position.”

Here are the quotes:

“It so happened that Bogdan Lvov was removed not only from the position of the head of the KGS [Cassation Economic Court], but also as a judge – due to the possession of a russian citizen’s passport. This was a subjective decision of the then head of the Supreme Court, Vsevolod Knyazev,” says Kravchenko.

we note:

The possession of a russian passport and the consequent dismissal from the position – it’s Knyazev’s subjective decision. And what about the community of judges demanding an urgent decision? The head of the Supreme Court devalued the struggle and positions of his colleagues, and such statements negatively affect the trust in the court, which, as sociology shows, leaves much to be desired…

Kravchenko’s quote, in which he directly talks about Knyazev’s supposedly subjective decision, is a blatant attempt to tell society that this decision was made by the former head of the Court, who was caught on bribery. This may lead people to wonder: could such a person make any good decision? = this decision, perhaps, should be doubted. And here manipulation occurs, likely to whitewash Lvov in the eyes of society. At one time, 1+1 whitewashed Dubinsky, and I wrote about that.

Such phenomena are simply unacceptable in society, now or in the future.

Even before the New Year, I wrote about my doubts regarding whether Kravchenko can ensure quality representation. Simply put, when Lvov headed one of the cassation courts, Kravchenko headed another. That is, they were colleagues and worked together for a long time. Although in his interview, Kravchenko denies that there could have been any relations between them. I find that hard to believe.

So let’s see what happens if, in the presence of a Russian passport, the court makes a decision in favor of Lvov… A quote from the head of the Supreme Court, which influences the quality of representation in court:

“If the decision is in favor of Bogdan Lvov – we will study it carefully, particularly in terms of the documents presented, and, if we disagree, we will decide on appealing in an appellate procedure.”

If there is a russian passport – what is there to think about?

We also note this.

Thus, the head of the Supreme Court signals to his colleagues that there is a possibility that the decision in favor of Lvov might not be appealed.

As a journalist, I have a question: how did it happen that the interview on mind.ua appeared at such a necessary time – just before the court session? And I remembered that on the same resource, there was an interview with the head of the “Servant of the People” party, Olena Shulyak, regarding the controversial urban planning reform, and it was a “warm bath,” not an interview. And I wrote about that too.

And here it’s also important to remember one aspect of the situation with Judge Lvov. It’s the petition to the President’s Office. For more than a year, signatures have been collected demanding the deprivation of Lvov’s citizenship, but the President’s Office, to put it mildly, is not in a hurry. And here we see on the same mind.ua such a timely formative interview with Kravchenko on a resource that does not ask sharp questions to the ruling party’s leader…

We all understand that judges cannot allow themselves the things that politicians do. It’s a different branch of power. There are their own laws and their own rules of ethics. So, there are even such principles of judges’ behavior as the Bangalore Principles. This is a very serious document. Look what is written on the website of the Verkhovna Rada – UN.

The head of the Supreme Court about him cannot not know. But, it turns out, he allows himself to very easily violate these principles. The question is not even that one cannot influence the court’s decisions. You cannot cast doubt in the eyes of society to construct a discourse that raises questions about justice and the fair conduct of the process.

Here are the principles that the head of the Supreme Court easily violated by giving an interview to mind.ua.

In addition to these Bangalore Principles, there are also ethical rules of conduct for judges. These were approved by the judges at a congress and can also be found on the website of the Verkhovna Rada. I believe that with his interview on the eve of the trial and the formulations he voiced, Kravchenko violated some articles of this code. Some of them echo what is in the previous document.

So, if the decision at the 11:00 session favors Judge Lvov, who holds a russian passport, it’s possible not only to dismiss the head of the Supreme Court but also those judges who make such decisions.

The public will be monitoring the legal process.

For “Ukrainska Pravda“.