Ministry of Justice (Ukraine)

Ministry of Justice of Ukraine (Міністерство юстиції України)
Agency overview
Formed	1990
Preceding agencies	Ministry of Justice of the Ukrainian SSR (1947-1963);; Commission of the Council of Ministers (1963-1970);; Ministry of Justice of the Ukrainian SSR (1970-1990);;
Jurisdiction	Government of Ukraine
Headquarters	13, Horodetskoho st, Kyiv
Minister responsible	Denys Maliuska;
Child agencies	State Archive Service; State Executive Service; State Penitentiary Service; State Registration Service; State Service of Ukraine for protection of personal data;
Website	minjust.gov.ua/en

The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine (Template:Lang-uk) 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.

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
- The agency, headquartered in Kyiv, operates the country's prisons.^[2]
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
Name of parent agency	Chairman of government	Name of minister	Start	End
General Secretariat of Ukraine	Volodymyr Vynnychenko	Valentyn Sadovsky	28 June 1917	13 August 1917
General Secretariat of Ukraine		Mykhailo Tkachenko	12 November 1917	23 January 1918
Council of People's Ministers		Mykhailo Tkachenko	23 January 1918	February 1918
Council of People's Ministers	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	Mykola Skrypnyk	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
	Panas Lyubchenko	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	Nikita Khrushchev		1946	March 1947
	Demian Korotchenko	Denis Panasyuk	March 1947	January 1953
	Demian Korotchenko	Fedir Hlukh	January 1953	1954
	Nykyfor Kalchenko	Fedir Hlukh	1954	March 1957
	Nykyfor Kalchenko	Kateryna Zghurska	March 1957	1961
	Volodymyr Shcherbytskyi	Kateryna Zghurska	1961	April 1963
	Volodymyr Shcherbytskyi	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
	Vitold Fokin	Volodymyr Kampo	20 March 1992	21 April 1992
	Leonid Kuchma	Vasyl Onopenko	27 October 1992	16 June 1994
	Vitaliy Masol	Vasyl Onopenko	16 June 1994	7 August 1995
	Yevhen Marchuk	Serhiy Holovatyi	27 September 1995	28 May 1996
	Pavlo Lazarenko	Serhiy Holovatyi	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
	Anatoliy Kinakh	Oleksandr Lavrynovych	7 May 2002	21 November 2002
	Viktor Yanukovych	Oleksandr Lavrynovych	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
	Viktor Yanukovych	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]
	Mykola Azarov	Olena Lukash	4 July 2013^[4]	27 February 2014
	Arseniy Yatsenyuk	Pavlo Petrenko	27 February 2014	14 April 2016
	Volodymyr Groysman	Pavlo Petrenko	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.

References

^ Rada supports coalition-proposed government lineup, Interfax-Ukraine (2 December 2014)
Rada approves new Cabinet with three foreigners, Kyiv Post (2 December 2014)
(in Ukrainian) Rada voted the new Cabinet, Ukrayinska Pravda (2 December 2014)
^ Home. State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine. Retrieved on 7 May 2017. "04050, Kyiv, Melnikova, 81" - Ukrainian address: "04050, м.Київ, вул. Мельникова, 81"; Russian address: "04050, г.Киев, ул. Мельникова, 81"
^ Judges Kolesnychenko, Kuzmyshyn, Justice Minister Lavrynovych elected as Supreme Council of Justice members, Interfax-Ukraine (2 July 2013)
^ Ukrainian President Appoints New Justice Minister , Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (4 July 2013)
^ Official website of the Ministry of Justice

External links

Official Website of the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice

[FLUYGIU21214-1] Rada supports coalition-proposed government lineup, Interfax-Ukraine (2 December 2014)
Rada approves new Cabinet with three foreigners, Kyiv Post (2 December 2014)
(in Ukrainian) Rada voted the new Cabinet, Ukrayinska Pravda (2 December 2014)

[2] Home. State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine. Retrieved on 7 May 2017. "04050, Kyiv, Melnikova, 81" - Ukrainian address: "04050, м.Київ, вул. Мельникова, 81"; Russian address: "04050, г.Киев, ул. Мельникова, 81"

[3] Judges Kolesnychenko, Kuzmyshyn, Justice Minister Lavrynovych elected as Supreme Council of Justice members, Interfax-Ukraine (2 July 2013)

[4] Ukrainian President Appoints New Justice Minister , Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (4 July 2013)

[5] Official website of the Ministry of Justice

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v t e Ministers of Justice of Ukraine
Ukraine (1917–1920)	Valentyn Sadovskyi (court affairs) • Serhiy Shelukhin (court affairs) • Mykhailo Chubynskyi • Oleksiy Romanov • Andriy Viazlov • Viktor Reinbot • Serhiy Shelukhin (acting) • Viktor Prykhodko • Hryhoriy Syrotenko • Dmytro Markovych • Andriy Livytskyi
West Ukraine (1918–1919)	Sydir Holubovych (court affairs) • Osyp Burachynskyi (court affairs)
Soviet Ukraine (1918–1991)	Aleksandr Khmelnitskiy • Mykhailo Lebedynets • Yevhen Terletskyi • Sergei Buzdalin • Mikhail Vetoshkin • Mykola Skrypnyk • Vasyl Poraiko • Vasiliy Polyakov • Mykhailo Mykhailyk • Arkadiy Kiselyov • Khoma Radchenko • Mykola Babchenko • Denys Panasyuk • Fedir Hlukh • Kateryna Zghurska • Volodymyr Zaichuk • Vitaliy Boiko
Ukraine	Vitaliy Boiko • Volodymyr Kampo • Vasyl Onopenko • Serhiy Holovatyi • Syuzanna Stanik • Oleksandr Lavrynovych • Roman Zvarych • Serhiy Holovatyi • Roman Zvarych • Oleksandr Lavrynovych • Mykola Onishchuk • Oleksandr Lavrynovych • Olena Lukash • Pavlo Petrenko • Denys Maliuska • Olha Stefanishyna

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