The High Judicial Council stopped the work of the local and appeal courts in occupied territories of Crimea and Donbas as the website of the council reported.
It is noted that the production of the Chairman of the Supreme Court on the stop of the courts in Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk regions as at January 2, 2018, was submitted to the High Judicial Council on January 9, 2018.
‘The production was submitted due to the measures in the fight against the terrorism at the territories where the courts are situated to provide the proper transfer of the judges to the regular place of work in other courts of the same level and without the competition’, the message said.
The High Judicial Council stopped the work of the local and appeal courts in occupied territories of Crimea and Donbas since January 25, 2018.
36 courts in Crimea, 31 courts in Donetsk and Luhansk regions stop their work.