Sokolov Volodymyr Mykolayovych

Position: judge of the Administrative Court of Cassation within the Supreme Court

Date and place of birth:

Born in 1981

Information about relatives:

Wife: Sokolova Alexandra Alexandrovna

Children: Sokolov Vladimir Vladimirovich, Sokolov Nikolay Vladimirovich

Education:

1998–2003: Yaroslav the Wise National Law Academy of Ukraine – received a higher legal education (qualification – lawyer).

2002–2003: Kharkiv State Academy of Urban Economy – received an economic education (qualification – economist).

Academic degree: Candidate of Law. The dissertation defense took place on 02/26/2024 in the specialty of labor law and social security law

Information about work (when, where worked, in what positions):

• 2003–2004: Assistant Judge of the Commercial Court of Sumy Region
  
• 2004–2005: worked in local government bodies (probably in Sumy region)
• 2005–2007: private sector activities (exact positions not specified)
• 2007–2008: practiced law (lawyer's license was suspended on 08/31/2007 due to appointment as a judge)
• 31.08.2007: By Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 804/2007, he was appointed a judge of the Sumy District Administrative Court for a term of 5 years. He actually began administering justice in 2008.
• 2008–2019: judge of the Sumy Administrative Court of Appeal; with 2008 He held the administrative position of deputy chairman of this court. For many years, he performed administrative functions in the court, combining them with the consideration of administrative cases.

2019 – present: Judge of the Supreme Court (Administrative Court of Cassation). Passed the open competition of 2017–2019, according to the results of which he scored 812.5 points and took 15th place among the winners of the competition for the Supreme Administrative Court of Cassation. Appointed by Presidential Decree in May 2019, took the oath of a judge of the Supreme Court and began work at the Administrative Court of Cassation.

Violation of legislation within the framework of the case:
The panel of judges of the Cassation Administrative Court, consisting of the presiding judge Ukhanenko S. A. and judges Kashpur O. V. and Sokolov V. M., having considered the case of Leonid Chemodanov, adopted a decision that actually legitimized a gross violation of fundamental human rights. The court legalized the deprivation of the legal residence status of a person who had been defending Ukraine with weapons in hand since 2014, based on administrative formalism and unverified information from law enforcement sources related to the aggressor state. The Supreme Court recognized as permissible the restriction of human rights without a guilty verdict, effectively ignoring the presumption of innocence and allowing the use of materials from closed criminal proceedings. The court ignored special provisions of national legislation that directly guarantee the protection and right to residence of foreign volunteers, and also refused to apply the principle of proportionality, without assessing the real threat to Chemodanov's life, freedom and security in the event of his deportation to the Russian Federation. Thus, the Supreme Court's decision sets a dangerous precedent, whereby the state effectively punishes its defenders, legalizes legal persecution through formal instructions, and paves the way for the use of the judicial system as a tool of indirect political persecution, which is incompatible with the standards of the European Convention on Human Rights and the practice of the ECHR.

Involvement in cases that had a public resonance (in which case was he noticed, status within this case, year, month):

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