The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Міністерство юстиції України, romanized: Ministerstvo yustytsiyi Ukrayiny) is the main body in the system of central government of Ukraine that regulates state legal policy. It is often abbreviated as "Мinjust" [of Ukraine]. It is one of the oldest ministerial offices of the country tracing its history back to the beginning of 20th century.
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| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 1990 |
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| Jurisdiction | Government of Ukraine |
| Headquarters | 13, Horodetskoho st, Kyiv |
| Minister responsible | |
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| Website | minjust.gov.ua/en |
Main objectives
- Ensuring realization of the state legal policy and the policy in the sphere of adaptation of the legislation of Ukraine to the legislation of the European Union.
- Preparation of propositions in conducting legal reforms and promoting development of a legal science.
- Ensuring the protection of rights and freedoms of a human and a citizen in the specific field.
- Preparation of propositions in improvement of legislation, its systematization, development of projects of legal acts and international agreements of Ukraine in legal affairs, conducting a legal expertise of projects of legal acts, state registration of legal acts, maintaining the Unified state registry of such acts.
- Planning by the proposals of other central bodies of executive power of legislative proceedings and actions in adaptation of the legislation of Ukraine to the legislation of the European Union.
- Coordination of actions in implementation of the National program in adaptation of the legislation of Ukraine to the legislation of the European Union.
- Organization of implementing the decisions of judges and other authorities (officials) according to the laws, working with human resources, expert support of justice.
- Organization of notary performance and the authorities in registration of acts of civil status.
- Developing a legal informativeness and forming in citizens a legal outlook.
- Fulfilling an international legal cooperation.
Structure
The ministry consists of the central body of ministry headed by its leadership composed of a minister, his/hers first deputy, and other deputies in assistance to the minister. To the central body of ministry also belongs the government official in affairs of the European Court of Human Rights, who represents Ukraine in the mentioned international institution. The ministry regulates and controls activities of notaries (legal law representatives and executives) in Ukraine.
There are several state departments and agencies that are assigned to the leadership of the ministry, each deputy of which is also assigned a territorial representation of local authorities of justice.
- State Archive Service of Ukraine
- State Executive Service of Ukraine
- State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine
- State Registration Service of Ukraine
- State Service of Ukraine for protection of personal data
List of ministers of justice
| Name of parent agency | Chairman of government | Name of minister | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | |||
| General Secretariat of Ukraine | Volodymyr Vynnychenko | Valentyn Sadovsky | 28 June 1917 | 13 August 1917 |
| Mykhailo Tkachenko | 12 November 1917 | 23 January 1918 | ||
| Council of People's Ministers | 23 January 1918 | February 1918 | ||
| Vsevolod Holubovych | Serhiy Shelukhin | February 1918 | 29 April 1918 | |
| Council of Ministers (1918) | Fedir Lyzohub | Mikhail Chubinsky | 30 April 1918 | 24 August 1918 |
| Aleksei Romanov | August 1918 | 25 October 1918 | ||
| Andrei Vyazlov | 25 October 1918 | 14 November 1918 | ||
| Sergei Gerbel | Viktor Reinbot | 14 November 1918 | 14 December 1918 | |
| Council of People's Ministers | Volodymyr Chekhivsky | Serhiy Shelukhin (acting) | ||
| Viktor Prykhodko | ||||
| Hryhoriy Syrotenko | 13 February 1919 | |||
| Serhiy Ostapenko | Dmytro Markovych | 13 February 1919 | 9 April 1919 | |
| Borys Martos | Andriy Livytskyi | 9 April 1919 | 5 August 1921 | |
| Isaak Mazepa | ||||
| Vyacheslav Prokopovych | ||||
| Andriy Livytskyi | ||||
| Vyacheslav Prokopovych | ||||
| Temporary Peasant-Worker's Government | Georgy Pyatakov | Aleksandr Khmelnitskiy | 28 November 1918 | May 1919 |
| All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee | Christian Rakovsky | Mikhail Lebedinets | May 1919 | August 1919 |
| People's Commissariat of UkrSSR | Yevgeniy Tereletsky | 20 February 1920 | 3 March 1921 | |
| Sergei Buzdalin | 1921 | 1921 | ||
| Mikhail Vetoshkin | January 1922 | 1922 | ||
| Mykola Skrypnyk | 1922 | 1923 | ||
| Vlas Chubar | 1923 | 1927 | ||
| Vasyl Poraiko | 5 March 1927 | 10 July 1930 | ||
| Vasyl Polyakov | September 1930 | 1933 | ||
| Mykhailo Mykhailyk | July 1933 | January 1935 | ||
| Panas Lyubchenko | Arkadiy Kiselyov-Kesler | January 1935 | August 1936 | |
| Khoma Radchenko | September 1936 | 1937 | ||
| Mykhailo Bondarenko | Khoma Radchenko | 1937 | 1937 | |
| Demian Korotchenko | Mykola Babchenko | June 1938 | 1939 | |
| Leonid Korniyets | 1939 | 1944 | ||
| Nikita Khrushchev | 1944 | 1946 | ||
| Cabinet of Ministers of UkrSSR | 1946 | March 1947 | ||
| Demian Korotchenko | Denis Panasyuk | March 1947 | January 1953 | |
| Fedir Hlukh | January 1953 | 1954 | ||
| Nykyfor Kalchenko | 1954 | March 1957 | ||
| Kateryna Zghurska | March 1957 | 1961 | ||
| Volodymyr Shcherbytskyi | 1961 | April 1963 | ||
| Volodymyr Zaichuk | 1970 | 1972 | ||
| Oleksandr Lyashko | 1972 | 1987 | ||
| Vitaliy Masol | 1987 | 1990 | ||
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Vitold Fokin | Vitaliy Boiko | 2 August 1990 | 20 March 1992 |
| Volodymyr Kampo | 20 March 1992 | 21 April 1992 | ||
| Leonid Kuchma | Vasyl Onopenko | 27 October 1992 | 16 June 1994 | |
| Vitaliy Masol | 16 June 1994 | 7 August 1995 | ||
| Yevhen Marchuk | Serhiy Holovatyi | 27 September 1995 | 28 May 1996 | |
| Pavlo Lazarenko | 28 May 1996 | 21 August 1997 | ||
| Valeriy Pustovoitenko | Suzanna Stanik [1st female] | 21 August 1997 | 22 December 1999 | |
| Viktor Yushchenko | 22 December 1999 | 29 May 2001 | ||
| Anatoliy Kinakh | 29 May 2001 | 7 May 2002 | ||
| Oleksandr Lavrynovych | 7 May 2002 | 21 November 2002 | ||
| Viktor Yanukovych | 21 November 2002 | 4 February 2005 | ||
| Yulia Tymoshenko | Roman Zvarych | 4 February 2005 | 27 September 2005 | |
| Yuriy Yekhanurov | Serhiy Holovatyi | 27 September 2005 | 4 August 2006 | |
| Viktor Yanukovych | Roman Zvarych | 4 August 2006 | 1 November 2006 | |
| Oleksandr Lavrynovych | 1 November 2006 | 18 December 2007 | ||
| Yulia Tymoshenko | Mykola Onishchuk | 18 December 2007 | 11 March 2010 | |
| Mykola Azarov | Oleksandr Lavrynovych | 11 March 2010 | 2 July 2013[3] | |
| Olena Lukash | 4 July 2013[4] | 27 February 2014 | ||
| Arseniy Yatsenyuk | Pavlo Petrenko | 27 February 2014 | 14 April 2016 | |
| Volodymyr Groysman | 14 April 2016 | 29 August 2019 | ||
| Oleksiy Honcharuk | Denys Maliuska | 29 August 2019 | present | |
Notes
- At the end of 1917 the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party established an oppositional government in Kharkiv, the People's Secretariat, a respective secretariat of which was headed by Vladimir Lyuksemburg. Some other secretaries of that government Yevgeniy Tereletsky and Mykola Skrypnyk later also have served as ministers of justice.
- On 28 November 1919, the newly established Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine created a new government, the Temporary Workers-Peasants Government, again in the opposition to the acting government in Ukraine. On 29 January 1919, it was replaced with the People's Commissariat of the Ukrainian SSR.
- With securing of the Soviet power in Ukraine after 1920 and until 1936 the People's Commissar of Justice (Narkom) performed also the role of the Prosecutor General of the republic.[5]
- Yevgeniy Tereletsky as the former People's Commissar of Justice in 1923 was an ambassador representing the Ukrainian SSR in the Baltic states.
See also
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