Ukraine

Russia's Wagner Group — the private military company whose leader Yevgeny Prigozhin led an abortive rebellion against Vladimir Putin before being killed in a plane crash last month — is to be proscribed in the UK as a terrorist organisation. Home Secretary Suella Braverman has today laid

Working in partnership with Ukraine’s Constitutional Court, the University of Birmingham and Ivan Franko National University, Lviv (IFNUL) have defined the first 1,000 terms in a unique handbook for scientists, human rights defenders, and legal experts further developing the country as a const

The UK government has granted a general licence to enable lawyers to provide legal advice to non-UK individuals and businesses in relation to their compliance with international sanctions on Russia, without breaching UK sanctions regulations themselves, writes Scottish lawyer Stacy Keen. UK Russian

An appeal hearing at a Moscow court yesterday which upheld the 13-year sentence imposed on Maksym Butkevych, a Ukrainian human rights defender, is a grave miscarriage of justice, Amnesty International said. The decision to imprison him for 13 years was taken by the so-called supreme court in Russian

The International Bar Association (IBA) and the Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA) have joined forces to monitor war crime trials in courts in Kyiv and Kharkiv Oblasts from July until the end of September 2023. The monitoring will be delivered as part of the United States Agency for International Devel

Anna Bazarchina BL has been appointed as the Irish representative of the Ukrainian National Bar Association (UNBA). Ms Bazarchina is lead of the Association of Ukrainian Lawyers of Ireland (AULI) and chair of the Ukraine Ireland Legal Alliance.

Ukrainian lawyers have expressed optimism that Ireland will follow England and Wales in introducing a streamlined process to allow them to qualify and practise as lawyers in the State. The Ukrainian National Bar Association (UNBA) said the matter is currently being considered by the Department of Ju

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia's commissioner for children’s rights, over the deportation of Ukrainian children. ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan KC said in a statement that the Pre-Trial Chamber "has confirmed that there

Ukraine has won a significant hurdle in a seven-year-long English court dispute over a $3 billion Russian loan, with the case now set to proceed to a full trial before the High Court. In an 85-page judgment handed down this morning, the UK Supreme Court unanimously held that the Law Debenture Trust

EU sanctions were the focus of more than one in 10 cases brought to the General Court of the European Union last year in the context of Russia's war in Ukraine, according to new figures. A total of 1,710 cases were brought to the two courts of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in 202

Today, 24 February 2023, marks exactly one year since Russia invaded Ukraine. In October 2022, at the opening ceremony of the IBA Annual Conference in Miami, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed delegates by video in which he referred to members of the audience as "defenders of th

Ukrainian refugees in Ireland will benefit from a 12-month extension to their temporary protection permissions, the government has announced. Some 75,000 people fleeing the war in Ukraine have been granted temporary protection in Ireland since 9 March 2022. Each permission is granted for a period of

New legislation has been developed in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine to strengthen the government's ability to respond to a curtailment of oil supplies. Ministers have approved the publication of the Oil Emergency Contingency and Transfer of Renewable Transport Fuels Functions Bill 2022, w

Over £18 billion worth of Russian assets have been frozen as a result of UK sanctions, according to the first official figures. The figures have been published by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) in its first annual review since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which led to

Dr Łukasz Grzejdziak, the Ronan Harty Newman Fellow at UCD Sutherland School of Law, has been appointed as an international expert in a major training programme for Ukrainian judges. The training programme, organised with the National School of Judges of Ukraine, is funded by the European Union thr