Former DACK head Vovk appeals dismissal to Supreme Court
On November 27, the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court began considering the complaint of a judge and former chairman of the liquidated DACK.
In March of this year, the High Council of Justice dismissed Vovk from his position as a judge, recognizing his actions as "violations of the norms of judicial ethics and standards of conduct," which undermines the authority of justice.
The case materials refer to the events of 2019. It is noted that, according to the investigation, Pavlo Vovk, who then headed the District Administrative Court of Kyiv, called a member of the Supreme Administrative Court and tried to influence the decision of the disciplinary chamber so that judges of another, the Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal of Kyiv, would avoid disciplinary liability. In particular, the conversation mentioned judge Volodymyr Kuzmenko, who in 2023 was elected by the Council of Judges of Ukraine as a deputy member of the advisory group of experts for the selection of judges of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, according to the case materials.
Vovk was also accused of organizing numerous lawsuits against members of the High Qualification Commission of Judges (HQCJ) to the Supreme Judicial Council in order to disrupt the qualification assessment of himself and other judges of the HQCJ he headed. Furthermore, according to the Supreme Judicial Council, Vovk developed a plan and blocked the work of the HQCJ “by filing custom lawsuits with the court against individual members of the commission” and contributed to the dismissal of disloyal members of the commission.
Another episode concerned alleged unlawful influence on a member of the Supreme Judicial Council in order to take revenge on one of the judges who had "failed" the qualification assessment.
Called a member of the HQCJ with the aim of illegally influencing him in order to delay and not complete the successful qualification assessment procedure while forging judicial protocols
Vovk is also accused of having, together with other judges of the Supreme Administrative Court, "ordered the bombing of the Supreme Administrative Court building" so that the disciplinary case of one of the judges of the Supreme Administrative Court, Yevgeny Ablov, would not be considered there.
Organized a notification by unknown individuals to law enforcement agencies about the bombing of the administrative building of the High Council of Justice in order to disrupt the meeting of the second disciplinary chamber
The former head of the district administrative court, Pavlo Vovk, did not come to the Supreme Court to consider his own complaint. He also did not join the online hearing. In the text of the appeal, he noted 6 violations on the part of the Supreme Administrative Court:
The High Council of Justice and the European Rules of Procedure of the Chamber have issued unlawful, unfounded decisions and decisions that do not contain legal grounds and motives with which the defendant should justify the stated decisions and conclusions of these decisions.
Pavlo Vovk is a suspect in the EBK database.
We previously reported that Deputy Head of the Kyiv City State Administration Volodymyr Prokopiv is returning to work after being suspended.
