This publication was prepared based on the results of the IV Judicial Forum held in Kyiv on September 16, 2021 as part of the United Nations Recovery and Peacebuilding Programme (UN RPP) with financial support of the governments of Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland. 

On September 16, 2021, the IV Judicial Forum was held as part of the United Nations Recovery and Peacebuilding Programme (UN RPP). The Forum was attended by judges of the Supreme Court, courts of general and administrative jurisdiction of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.

The main purpose of the event was to discuss certain problems and challenges of the administration of justice in the context of the ongoing armed conflict in the east of Ukraine. The Forum participants discussed issues of transitional justice, compensation for material damage caused by the use of private real estate by military personnel, improvements of the administration of justice and judicial protection of human rights in the context of armed conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Furthermore, participants addressed a number of case law issues that are of the greatest concern to judges in the context of the exercise of social and other rights of individuals, including access to justice amid the COVID-19 pandemic.