Advocates are urged to join in helping Ukrainian refugees
Advocates who feel socially responsible and have the desire and ability to provide legal assistance to Ukrainian refugees can join the joint initiative of the Danish Refugee Council and the UNBA on the digital platform PravoVsim.
The project provides qualified legal assistance to Ukrainian citizens who have been forcibly displaced as a result of armed aggression, became refugees or persons under special protection.
The platform provides consultations in the following areas:
- internally displaced persons;
- social security programs;
- subsidy;
- employment issues;
- birth/death registration;
- Action and state electronic services;
- missing person (search, identification and declaration of death);
- access to medical care;
- access to education;
- family relations (divorce, maintenance, adoption, guardianship/custody, etc;)
- traveling abroad;
- rules for pet owners;
- housing, land and property (HLP);
- compensation for damaged or destroyed property;
- mortgages and loans;
- will and inheritance;
- mobilization/discharge from military service;
- rights and guarantees of veterans;
- support of entrepreneurial activity;
- regulation of volunteer activities and public organizations;
- Citizenship, temporary and permanent residence;
- search for temporary protection, asylum;
- restoration/receipt of personal documentation.
To participate in the project, please fill out the registration form. After that, you will be provided with methodological materials and access to the platform.
If you have any questions, please contact the project coordinator Oleksandr Chernykh (ua-sc@mail.unba.org.ua).
As a reminder, on April 24, Alix Françoise Marie Journou, the Chargé d'Affaires of the Danish Refugee Council in Ukraine, and Lidiya Izovitova, the President of UNBA, BCU, signed a memorandum of understanding.
Popular news
Legislation
DIC and customs control: advocates warn against the risks of draft law No. 13421
Ukrainian defense companies face bureaucratic delays in importing components, which could critically affect the timing of government contracts. At the same time, the mechanism proposed in the Verkhovna Rada creates risks that could outweigh the potential benefits for the industry.
Discussion
Partnership for reconstruction: UNBA discusses new law on PPPs
Public-private partnerships are considered one of the key tools for Ukraine's recovery, but in practice, their mechanisms remain complex, poorly understood, and often ineffective.
Guarantees of the practice of law
Defended police officers — ended up in the army: advocate mobilized while performing his duties
An advocate specializing in defending the rights of law enforcement officers and who had repeatedly won cases against the police was mobilized while performing his professional duties. The day before, a report appeared in the Oberig registry stating that he had violated military registration rules, and his current deferral was canceled. The advocate was detained, taken to the TCC and the SS, beaten and sent to a military unit.
Announcements
The BCU has begun accepting documents from candidates for the Competition Commission for the selection of members of the HQCJ
The Bar Council of Ukraine announces the start of accepting documents from candidates who wish to be elected to the Competition Commission for the selection of members of the High Qualification Commission of Judges under the BCU quota.
Legislation
Venice Commission warned of risks of changes to disciplinary procedures for Ukrainian judges
The European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) and the Council of Europe Directorate for Human Rights and Rule of Law are preparing an assessment of draft laws concerning the judicial system and the status of judges in Ukraine.
Announcements
Ukrainian advocates invited to Bonn for internship
Young Ukrainian advocates specializing in civil, commercial, and economic law have the opportunity to participate in an internship program in Germany. The program is organized by the International Legal Cooperation Foundation (IRZ) in cooperation with the Federal Bar Association and the German Bar Association.
Legislation
Declarations of integrity for judges and others: BCU approves conclusions on draft laws
Under the guise of restoring trust in the judiciary, repressive mechanisms of control over it may be introduced. This directly contradicts international experience and may lead to the degradation of the Ukrainian justice system.
Court practice
Automatic extension of detention violates the right to defense, - says Constitutional Court
The obstacles to access to court and the violation of the right to be heard in court for a person in such an important matter as the extension of the term of detention, established by the provisions of the CPC, mean that it is impossible to exercise the right to defense guaranteed by part two of Article 63 of the Constitution.
Publications
Ihor Kolesnykov A BRIEF SUMMARY REGARDING THE APPLICATION OF THE ORDER ON EXTENDED CONFISCATION IN LATVIA REGARDING FINANCIAL ASSETS OF…
Valentyn Gvozdiy WORKING IN A WAR ZONE
Lydia Izovitova Formula of perfection
Sergiy Vylkov Our judicial system is so built that courts do not trust advocates
Iryna Vasylyk Advocacy in the proclamation of Independence of Ukraine
Oleksandr DULSKY When we cross the border of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court, we get into another department of the National Anti-Corruption…
Vadym Krasnyk The UNBA will work, and all obstacles and restrictions are only temporary inconveniences
Lydia Izovitova Interview with Lydia Izovitova on the occasion of the 8th anniversary of the founding of UNBA: We are the voice of t…
