The results of Ukraine’s first competition for Supreme Court judges are in. The good news is that the candidate who gained notoriety for his public defence of Viktor Yanukovych’s ‘dictatorship laws’ and for a ruling evicting a 97-year-old will not be one of the 120 new judges. The bad news is that this is only because Yaroslav Romanyuk announced his withdrawal on July 27 evening when it was already clear that he had been assigned one of the posts.
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The statue of Lady Justice Themis is seen on April 5, 2017, at the Supreme Court of Ukraine in Kyiv.
