- Ministry of Justice (Ukraine)
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Ministry of Justice
of UkraineМіністерство юстиції України Agency overview Formed 1990 Preceding agencies *Ministry of Justice of the Ukrainian SSR (1947-1963)
*Legal commission of the Council of Ministers (1963-1970)
*Ministry of Justice of the Ukrainian SSR (1970-1990)Jurisdiction Ukraine Headquarters Kiev Ministers responsible Oleksandr Lavrynovych, Minister of Justice of Ukraine
Inna Yemelianova, First Deputy MinisterParent agency Cabinet of Ministers Child agencies 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 dataWebsite http://www.minjust.gov.ua The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Міністерство юстиції України) is the main body in the system of central bodies of the executive power that provides realization of a state legal policy. It is often abbreviated as Мiniust [України]. It is one of the oldest ministerial offices in Ukraine tracing its history back to the beginning of 20th century.
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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.
Structures
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. 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 and historical outlook
Name of parent agency Chairman of government Name of minister Term of Office Start End General Secretariat of Ukraine Volodymyr Vynnychenko Valentyn Sadovsky June 28, 1917 August 13, 1917 Mykhailo Tkachenko November 12, 1917 January 23, 1918 Council of People's Ministers January 23, 1918 February 1918 Vsevolod Holubovych Serhiy Shelukhin February 1918 April 29, 1918 Council of Ministers (1918) Fyodor Lizogub Mikhail Chubinsky April 30, 1918 August 24, 1918 Aleksei Romanov August 1918 October 25, 1918 Andrei Vyazlov October 25, 1918 November 14, 1918 Sergei Gerbel Viktor Reinbot November 14, 1918 December 14, 1918 Council of People's Ministers Volodymyr Chekhivsky Serhiy Shelukhin (acting) Viktor Prykhodko Hryhoriy Syrotenko February 13, 1919 Serhiy Ostapenko Dmytro Markovych February 13, 1919 April 9, 1919 Borys Martos Andriy Livytskyi April 9, 1919 August 5, 1921 Isaak Mazepa Vyacheslav Prokopovych Andriy Livytskyi Vyacheslav Prokopovych Temporary Peasant-Worker's Government Georgy Pyatakov Aleksandr Khmelnitskiy November 28, 1918 May 1919 All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee Christian Rakovsky Mikhail Lebedinets May 1919 August 1919 People's Commissariat of UkrSSR Yevgeniy Tereletsky February 20, 1920 March 3, 1921 Sergei Buzdalin 1921 1921 Mikhail Vetoshkin January 1922 1922 Mykola Skrypnyk 1922 1923 Vlas Chubar 1923 1927 Vasyl Poraiko March 5, 1927 July 10, 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 August 2, 1990 March 20, 1992 Volodymyr Kampo March 20, 1992 April 21, 1992 Leonid Kuchma Vasyl Onopenko October 27, 1992 June 16, 1994 Vitaliy Masol June 16, 1994 August 7, 1995 Yevhen Marchuk Serhiy Holovatyi September 27, 1995 May 28, 1996 Pavlo Lazarenko May 28, 1996 August 21, 1997 Valeriy Pustovoitenko Syuzanna Stanik August 21, 1997 December 22, 1999 Viktor Yushchenko December 22, 1999 May 29, 2001 Anatoliy Kinakh May 29, 2001 May 7, 2002 Oleksandr Lavrynovych May 7, 2002 November 21, 2002 Viktor Yanukovych November 21, 2002 February 4, 2005 Yulia Tymoshenko Roman Zvarych February 4, 2005 September 27, 2005 Yuriy Yekhanurov Serhiy Holovatyi September 27, 2005 August 4, 2006 Viktor Yanukovych Roman Zvarych August 4, 2006 November 1, 2006 Oleksandr Lavrynovych November 1, 2006 December 18, 2007 Yulia Tymoshenko Mykola Onishchuk December 18, 2007 March 11, 2010 Mykola Azarov Oleksandr Lavrynovych March 11, 2010 present - 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 November 28, 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 January 29, 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.[1]
- 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
- European Court of Human Rights
- Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
- Justice ministry
- Ministry of Justice (Soviet Union)
- Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Supreme Council of Justice (Ukraine)
References
- ^ Official website of the Ministry of Justice
External links
Categories:- Lists of government ministers
- Government ministries of Ukraine
- Ministries established in 1990
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