On February 10-11, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine hosted an online webinar for the personnel of the Secretariat of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine and scientific advisers to the judges of the Court. The webinar was dedicated to the issues on the execution of the ECtHR’s judgments. The organisation of the event was provided by the Department for the Execution of Judgments of the ECtHR of the Directorate General for Human Rights and the Rule of Law of the Council of Europe.
Introductory speeches were given by Clare Brown, Head of Section, Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights of the Directorate General for Human Rights and the Rule of Law of the Council of Europe, and Larysa Biriuk, Acting Head of the Secretariat of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.
During this event, topical presentations were made by Clare Brown, Head of Section, Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, Clare Ovey, Head of Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, Mykola Sorochynskyy, non-judicial rapporteur, ECtHR, legal officers from the Department for the Execution of Judgments of the ECtHR of the Directorate General for Human Rights and the Rule of Law Olga Dubinska, Yulia Gendlina and Nadiia Zadorozhna.
The two-day programme included discussion on the role of domestic constitutional courts in the European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence, namely the quality of law, constitutional petitions as a remedy, Protocol 16 and prospects of advisory opinions for constitutional procedure etc.)
In addition, the participants analysed some aspects of the execution of judgments of the ECtHR and the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, issues of intensifying the dialogue between the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe and the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.
Among the issues there were also discussed questions regarding execution of national judgments, judicial and prosecutorial independence, freedom of movement and life imprisonment without possibility for review. In this context, a number of ECtHR’s judgments were discussed. In particular, under the expert focus there were “Zhovner v. Ukraine”, “Yuriy Nikolayevich Ivanov v. Ukraine”, “Burmych and Others v. Ukraine”, “Ignatov v. Ukraine”, “Petukhov v. Ukraine (No. 2)”, and “Oleksandr Volkov v. Ukraine”.
To conclude, the parties engaged in an exchange of views on future forms of cooperation.
