Enhancing the capacity of local general courts and the free legal aid system in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts on armed conflict related cases while implementing transitional justice in Ukraine: needs and prospects

From April to August 2021, the UN Recovery and Peacebuilding Programme  carried out a survey on the needs and prospects for enhancing capacity of the local general courts and the free legal aid system (FLAS) in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts on armed conflict related cases in the implementation of transitional justice in Ukraine. The purpose of the study was to assess the capacity building needs of local general courts and local secondary free legal aid offices dealing with civil and criminal cases during the transitional policy in Ukraine, as well as in terms of the quarantine restrictions.

Based on the results of the study, the UN RPP has prepared a report which describes the context, identified needs and opportunities to increase the capacity of local general courts and the FLAS in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts in cases related to armed conflict in the implementation of transitional justice in Ukraine, challenges of the implementation of legislation on transitional period, as well as possible ways to overcome them.