Yermak receives new position
Former head of the Office of the President Andrii Yermak received the position of head of the committee at the Ukrainian National Bar Association (UNBA).
This is evidenced by data from the UNBA, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
Four new permanent collegial advisory bodies - sectoral committees - have begun work at the UNBA. Separate orders of the head of the UNBA, Bar Council of Ukraine (BCU) Lidiya Izovitova established:
- The Committee on the Protection of Victims of Armed Aggression against Ukraine, Compensation Mechanisms and European Integration Legal Support for Restoration (chairman - Andrii Yermak);
- The Committee on Legal Support and Protection of Rights in the Field of Mental Health (chairman - Hanna Ishchenko);
- The Committee on Oil, Gas and Subsoil Use (chairman - Serhii Antonenko);
- The Committee on Mediation (chairman - Luiza Romanadze).
The latter advisory body appeared during the reorganization of the Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution, which will now deal with issues of pre-trial and out-of-court dispute resolution, in addition to mediation issues.
As a reminder, the UNBA committees are formed and carry out their activities with the aim of promoting the development and strengthening of the role of the bar in Ukraine, ensuring the rights of advocates and creating the necessary conditions for the provision of professional legal assistance by advocates, ensuring the rule of law, sustainable socio-economic development of Ukraine, promoting the level of and involvement of advocates in the process of improving the legal system of the state and bringing it closer to international standards, ensuring and protecting human rights and freedoms, promoting the implementation of international law norms into the national legislation of Ukraine, introducing best international practices and innovations in advocacy, establishing fruitful cooperation and supporting sustainable relationships with bar associations from foreign countries, international organizations, and providing assistance in the professional development of young advocates.
The activities of members of the committee councils, including the heads, are carried out on a voluntary basis.
The quantitative composition, special (additional) tasks, rights and obligations of a particular committee are established by the order of the head of the UNBA, BCU.
To fulfill the tasks, the committees interact with the Bar Council of Ukraine, state authorities and local self-government bodies whose activities are related to the scope of responsibility of the committees, judicial and law enforcement bodies, committees and the apparatus of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, international organizations and their representations in Ukraine, human rights organizations, public organizations, associations, legal entities of private and public law, as well as individuals.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, after his dismissal, Yermak went into a closed mode of life, but did not break ties with top officials and diplomats. Andrii Yermak declared data that do not correspond to reality. Yermak went to become a lawyer, and not to the front, as he promised after his dismissal from the Bankova Street.