The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine ( uk, Міністерство юстиції України) is the main body in the system of central government of

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that regulates state legal policy. It is often abbreviated as "Мinjust"

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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

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. * 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 The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR or ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights. The court hears applications alleging that ...

, 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. *

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* State Executive Service of Ukraine * State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine ** The agency, headquartered in

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, operates the country's prisons. * State Registration Service of Ukraine * State Service of Ukraine for protection of personal data

List of Ministers of Justice and historical outlook

* At the end of 1917 the

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established an oppositional government in

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest city and municipality in Ukraine.

, the

People's Secretariat The People's Secretariat of Ukraine was the executive body of the Provisional Central Executive Committee of Soviets in Ukraine. It was formed in Kharkiv on December 30, 1917 as a form of the Soviet concept of dual power by the Russian and other ...

, 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 November 28, 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 January 29, 1919, it was replaced with the People's Commissariat of the

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

. * 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.Official website of the Ministry of Justice * Yevgeniy Tereletsky as the former People's Commissar of Justice in 1923 was an

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representing the

in the

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References

External links

Official Website of the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice
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Justice Justice, in its broadest sense, is the principle that people receive that which they deserve, with the interpretation of what then constitutes "deserving" being impacted upon by numerous fields, with many differing viewpoints and perspective ...

Constitution of Ukraine Law of Ukraine

Main objectives

Structure

List of Ministers of Justice and historical outlook

See also

References

External links