This OECD Justice Review was prepared by the OECD Public Governance Directorate (GOV), under the leadership of Elsa Pilichowski, Director for Public Governance.
The Review was led by Chloé Lelievre (Team Lead, OECD Justice and Rule of Law) and Franciszek Ploch (OECD Policy Analyst). The principal authors of the individual chapters are: Chapter 2: Franciszek Ploch and Alejandra Saffon (International Expert); Chapter 3: Pim Albers (Senior Expert on Justice and Rule of Law) and Franciszek Ploch; Chapter 4: Mónica Castillejos-Aragón (Lecturer in Comparative Law and International Law, Berkeley School of Law, University of California), Chloé Lelievre, Franciszek Ploch and Michael Tartaglia (OECD Policy Analyst); Chapter 5: Pim Albers and Franciszek Ploch; and Chapter 6: Alejandra Saffon. Nathalia Berkowitz (International Lawyer, Access to Justice Expert), Francisco Cardona (Senior International Justice Policy Expert), Gabriel Cifuentes (former Secretary of Transparency of Colombia; former Director of Justice, Security and Governance at the National Development Department, Colombia) and Roger Scott-Douglas (former Assistant Secretary, Priorities and Planning, Treasury Board Secretariat, Canada) provided expert advice and review, while Serhii Horovenko (National consultant) contributed additional review and insights into the local context. Marta Koptiakow from the Ministry of Justice of Poland kindly supported the project by providing a peer perspective.
The Review also benefitted from valuable comments from colleagues in GOV: Gillian Dorner (Deputy Director, GOV), Simon Callewaert (Governance Indicators and Performance), Elena Konceviciute, Carissa Munro and Pelagia Patsoule (Anti-Corruption, Integrity and Open Government), Brian Finn (Budgetary Governance), Gregor Virant (Head, SIGMA), as well as from the Global Relations and Co-operation (GRC) Directorate: William Tompson (Head, Eurasia) and Kateryna Penkova (OECD-Ukraine Liaison Office) and the Economics Department: Tim Bulman and Andrew Keith. Michael Tartaglia provided editing and drafting support. Marc Vincent and Celine Cojocar contributed to drafting and background research. Ciara Muller, Meral Gedik and Andrea Uhrhammer provided editorial assistance. We also thank the delegates of the OECD Justice Network and the Public Governance Committee for their valuable contributions and feedback.
Anita Richter (Head, Ukraine Unit, GRC), together with Michał Faleńczyk (Head), Marta Sydoryak (Deputy Head) and Kateryna Penkova in the OECD-Ukraine Liaison Office in Kyiv provided essential advice, review and co-ordinated liaison with stakeholders in Ukraine. Aurelia Neel and Pascaline Deplagne helped ensure the security of the fact-finding mission to Kyiv in November 2024. Tina Khutsishvili and Delphine Mergier provided invaluable administrative support to the project. Interpretation support was provided by Anastasiya Röthig, Anastasia Shchetinina and Volodymyr Kaplun.
The OECD is sincerely grateful for the partnership and continued co-operation of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine throughout the project, in particular the Directorate of Justice and Criminal Law and the Main Department on Justice. The OECD also expresses its gratitude to the Strategic Planning and Public Policies Co-ordination Directorate of the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, for its valuable review and co-ordination.
The Review benefitted from key data and insights gathered through consultations with judicial and prosecutorial governance bodies, institutions and courts, including the High Council of Justice, the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine, the Supreme Court of Ukraine, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine, the Council of Judges of Ukraine and the State Judicial Administration of Ukraine; prosecution bodies, notably the Office of the Prosecutor General and the Council of Prosecutors of Ukraine; and parliamentary and central government institutions, including the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Policy, the Office of the President of Ukraine and the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine. The Review also benefitted from contributions from the National School of Judges of Ukraine and the Coordination Centre for Legal Aid Provision. It further draws on insights from oversight and accountability institutions, including the Office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights. The OECD is also grateful to civil society organisations and professional associations, including the DEJURE Foundation, the Centre of Policy and Legal Reform, the Legal Development Network, the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, the Ukrainian Academy of Mediation and the Ukrainian National Bar Association, for their valuable contributions. Finally, the OECD acknowledges the close collaboration and exchange with international partners, including the United States Department of State, the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine, the Pravo-Justice project and the International Development Law Organization, in ensuring alignment of efforts and sharing contributions.
The OECD gratefully acknowledges the financial support provided by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Government of the Kingdom of Norway through the OECD Ukraine Country Programme.