The panel of judges of the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine has decided to postpone the consideration of the lawsuit of former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Shokin for 3:00 p.m. on April 20, because of the absence of the claimant and his representatives at the court session, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported.
Neither the plaintiff, nor his representative notified the court about the reasons for their non-appearance.
Presiding Judge Valentyn Moroz heard the opinion of the parties in the case and decided to postpone the consideration of the lawsuit for April 20.
On March 29, 2016 Ukraine’s parliament voted to sack Shokin. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed an order to dismiss Shokin on April 3, 2016, and Yuriy Lutsenko became PGO head in May 2016.
In March, Shokin filed a lawsuit seeking the recognition of his dismissal as illegal and his reinstatement in the prosecutor general’s office.
The defendants in Shokin’s lawsuit are Ukraine’s president Poroshenko and the Verkhovna Rada, who is represented in court by Mykola Olefirenko.
Shokin seeks the Verkhovna Rada’s resolution on giving its consent to his dismissal, as well as the relevant presidential decrees to be declared null and void. In addition, the former prosecutor general also seeks to be reinstated in his former office, the court’s press service told Interfax-Ukraine.
