Please note! The forum will be held over two days: 27 and 28 November.

Separate registration is required for both days of the event.

To participate in the first free day of the event, please register via the link.

If you would like to participate in the second day of the forum, please register on this page. 

The Ukrainian Bar Association invites you to the 14th Judicial Forum, a leading annual platform for discussing strategic challenges and the future of justice.

Over two days, judges, lawyers, representatives of judicial administration bodies, legislators, and international experts will discuss the digital transformation of the judicial system, reform of the legal profession, ensuring the unity of judicial practice, European integration processes, international court cases, and legislative changes that will affect law enforcement in 2025.

The Forum is a space for professional dialogue, where decisions are made, experiences are shared, and guidelines for the development of justice in Ukraine are determined.

Date: November 28, 2025

Venue: For security reasons, the venue of the Forum will be communicated separately to all confirmed participants.

November 28, 2025

PROGRAM

09:30 - 10:00 Registration of participants. Welcome coffee

10:00-10:10 Opening of the second day of the event. Welcome remarks

Mykola Stetsenko, President of the Ukrainian Bar Association, Managing Partner at AVELLUM

Iryna Mudra, Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine (invited)

10:10-10:40 Interview with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Stanislav Kravchenko: the state of the judiciary, challenges, and strategic guidelines

10:40-12:00 Session 1. European integration processes in the justice sector

Experts and topics:

Iryna Mudra, Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine (invited)

• Judicial power development strategy  

Taras Kachka, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine 

• Opening of Cluster 1 “Fundamentals”: current status, expectations from the EU, next steps

Katarína Mathernová, Ambassador of the EU to Ukraine(invited)

• Keynote speech: European Commission Report on Enlargement 2025: assessment of Ukraine's progress, recommendations on justice

Oleksandr Banchuk, Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine 

• Implementation of the Roadmap on the Rule of Law: institutional capacity, real results, problem areas

TBD

• Assessment of the public sector

Volodymyr Chaban, Judicial Reform Component Lead of the EU Project “Pravo-Justice”

• International technical assistance as a partner in the implementation of judicial reform

12:00-12:30 Coffee break

12:30-13:50 Session 2. Justice sector

Moderator:

Anna Ogrenchuk, Managing Partner at LCF Law Group

Experts and topics:

Representative of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine

• Personnel policy in the judicial system: selection, evaluation, and interviews of candidates for judicial positions

Hryhoriy Usyk, Сhairman of the High Council of Justice 

• Independence of judges: challenges, guarantees, and temporal application of uniform criteria of integrity and ethics

Denys Maslov, Member of the Ukrainian Parliament, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy (invited)

• Legislative regulation of the justice sector: current initiatives and draft laws 

Ruslan Kravchenko, Prosecutor General (invited)

• The state of the prosecutor's office: general trends, personnel challenges

Tetiana Ogneviuk, Partner at AMBASSADORS, Head of litigation practice

• Assessment of the professional community

13:50-14:20 Coffee break

14:20-15:40 Session 3. Ukraine in the international judicial arena

Focus areas:

• Precedent-setting decision in PrivatBank v. Kolomoisky and Bogolyubov (High Court of London): impact on law enforcement in Ukraine
• Recovery of damages from the Russian Federation in favor of private entities in foreign jurisdictions: why are there still no positive precedents and what are the prospects? 
• Protecting Ukraine's interests in international public judicial institutions:
• Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine
• International Criminal Court 
• European Court of Human Rights (ECHR): Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia case

Experts:

Anton Korynevych, Director of the Department of International Law of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Ambassador-at-Large, Representative of Ukraine to the International Court of Justice (invited)

Representative of the prosecutor's office (invited)

Representative of the Ministry of Justice (invited)

Representatives of law firms

15:40-16:10 Coffee break

16:10-17:30 Session 4. Legislative trends 2025: impact on judicial practice

Moderator:

Oleksandr Onishchenko, Partner at INTEGRITES, Head of litigation practice

Focus areas:

• The Law on Protection of Good Faith Acquirers: practical challenges and controversial aspects of application
• Fiduciary duties of company managers: standards of responsibility
• Repeal of the Commercial Code: legal consequences and challenges for judicial practice
• Statute of limitations during martial law: repeal of suspension and challenges for judicial practice

Experts:

Volodymyr Yenich, Partner at AVER LEX

17:30 - 20:00 Evening reception. Networking

We are grateful for the support in organising the first day of the forum EU Project Pravo-Justice and

Expertise France

We would like to express our gratitude for the partnership support in holding the event:

General Partner:

LCF Law Group

Partner:

AVER LEX

Session Partner:

INTEGRITES

Like-minded Partner:

AMBASSADORS

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