The High Council of Justice decided not to consider the recommendation of the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine regarding the dismissal of the former judge of the Chaplynka District Court, Ihor Shtulman.
This is stated in the relevant ruling.
Shtulman began his career in the Chaplynka District Court of Kherson Oblast, where he worked from 1996.
In 2001 the Verkhovna Rada appointed him a judge in Chaplynka for an indefinite term, after which he transferred to the capital, where he worked as a judge for over 20 years.
Shtulman’s professional path ended at the Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal, to which he was transferred in February 2024. It was from this position that in the spring of 2026 he decided to resign at his own request, which ultimately became the reason for the council’s refusal to consider the qualification commission’s submission.
He submitted his application on May 28, 2026, and on June 25 the High Council of Justice officially dismissed him.
Since at the time of consideration of the commission’s recommendation Shtulman no longer worked at the court and was not on the staff, by law he cannot be dismissed a second time.
It should be noted that during his time at the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine Ihor Shtulman took part in the consideration of a number of high-profile cases. In particular, in the period from 2010 to 2013 he was a member of panels of judges that upheld bans on peaceful assemblies in Luhansk Oblast, Kharkiv and Sevastopol.
In 2015 Shtulman was part of the panel that overturned the suspension of Kyiv Pechersky District Court judge Oksana Tsarevych, who was suspected of persecuting participants of the AutoMaidan.
The following year he presided over the panel that blocked the dismissal for breach of oath of judge Olena Vasylyeva, whose actions against Maidan participants were investigated by the Temporary Investigative Commission.