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March 22, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
High Council of Justice adds three more disciplinary cases against judge from Odesa region
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Podilskyi City District Court. PHOTO: Facebook
The second disciplinary chamber of the High Council of Justice has consolidated three cases against judge Halyna Pavlovska of the Podilskyi City District Court of Odesa Oblast, adding them to the previously consolidated cases against the judge.
According to the HCJ press service, all complaints were filed by lawyer Serhiy Osokin, who accuses the judge of deliberately delaying the consideration of his clients' cases.
These are the complaints filed by the lawyer on behalf of Serhiy Spinatiy, Svitlana Prokopova, and Andriy Hutsol. These complaints were merged with two previous ones filed by the lawyer in the interests of another client.
In June 2025, the lawyer accused the judge of not having held a single court hearing in his client's case since 2022, which indicates that the judge violated the terms of the case, which is grounds for bringing the judge to disciplinary responsibility.
The judge, in turn, referred to her workload. As in the case of another lawyer's complaint, which resulted in a disciplinary case against the judge in February 2026. She explained that, for example, from January 1, 2025, to July 9, 2025, the judge received 840 cases and materials, considered 865, and had 2,877 cases in total.
In addition, Halyna Pavlovska said that after five judges resigned and the automated distribution of cases was re-implemented in October 2018, about 750 cases were received by her. For a long time, two out of nine judges have been administering justice in the Podilskyi City District Court of Odesa Oblast. At the same time, on November 15, 2024, Judge Halyna Pavlovska was elected as the Head of the Podilskyi City District Court of Odesa Region.
The case in question was a case that the judge received on October 5, 2017, when the Podilskyi City District Court of Odesa Oblast received a case that was referred to Judge Halyna Pavlovska, and for eight years the case was not considered, and not a single court hearing was held.
The case was eventually scheduled for consideration on August 7, 2025, as a result of the lawyer's complaint against the judge in other cases. The complainant noted that he had filed a claim to determine the procedure for participation in the upbringing and free communication with the child in 2017, when the child was eight years old, currently the plaintiff's daughter is 16 years old and any decision in the case will not have the same meaning as at the time of filing the claim with the court.
