ACCESS TO JUSTICE IN EASTERN EUROPE Founded by East European Law Research Center AJEE is an English-language journal which covers issues related to access to justice and the right to a fair and impartial trial. AJEE focuses specifically on law in East European countries, such as Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, and other countries of the region, sharing in the evolution of their legal traditions. While preserving the high academic standards of scholarly research, AJEE allows its contributing authors, especially young legal professionals and practitioners, to present their articles on the most current issues. Editor in Chief Dr.Sc. (Law) Iryna Izarova, Institute of Law, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine Deputy Editor in Chief Prof. Elisabetta Silvestri, JD, LL.M. (Cornell) (Law), Pavia, Italy; Editorial Board Prof. Dr. Alan Uzelac, Head of the Procedural Law Department, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia; Prof. Dr. Cornelis Hendrik (Remco) Van Rhee, Professor of European Legal History and Comparative Civil Procedure, Department of Foundations and Methods of Law, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, the Netherlands; Prof. Dr. Vytautas Nekrosius, Head of the Private Law Department, Faculty of Law, Vilnius University, Lithuania; Dr. Vigita Vebraite, PhD (Law), Assoc. Prof. of the Private Law Department, Faculty of Law, Vilnius University, Lithuania; Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (Law) Alexander Trunk, Director of the Institute of East European Law, Chairman of Center of East European Studies of Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany; Prof. habil. Dr. Radoslaw Flejszar, Head of the Civil Procedure Department, Jagiellonian University, Poland; Dr. habil. Tadeusz Zembrzuski, Prof. of the Civil Procedure Department, Warsaw University, Poland; Dr. Bartosz Szolc-Nartowski, PhD (Law), Assoc. Prof., University of Gdańsk, Poland; Costas Popotas, LL.M. QUB, Head of the Unit, Directorate-General for Administration, Court of Justice, Luxembourg; Dr. Henriette-Cristine Boscheinen-Duursma, Priv.–Doz., Dr., LL.M. (Passau), M.A.S. (European Law), Law Faculty, University of Salzburg, Austria; Prof. Dr. Federico Bueno de Mata, Prof. of the Procedural Law Department, Law Faculty, Salamanca University, Spain; Prof. habil. Dr. Vassilios Christianos, Prof. Emeritus of European Union Law, Faculty of Law, University of Athens, Greece; Dr. Gabriel M. Lentner, Assoc. Prof. of International Law and Arbitration, Department of Law and International Relations at Danube University Krems, Lecturer in Law, Faculty of Law, University of Vienna, Austria; Dr. Fernando Gascón-Inchausti, Prof. of the Department of Procedural and Criminal Law, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Law School, Spain; Dr. Prof. Laura Ervo, Head of Unit, The Örebro University, Sweden. Advisory Board Dr.Sc. (Law), Prof. Ivan Grytsenko, Prof. of the Administrative Law Department, Institute of Law, Taras Shevchenko National Board University of Kyiv, Ukraine Dr. habil. Robert Kulski, Prof. of the Civil Procedure Department II, Łódź University, Poland; Prof. Dr.Sc. (Law) Yurii Prytyka, Prof. of the Civil Procedure Department, Institute of Law, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine; Dr.Sc. (Law) Serhij Venediktov, Prof. of the Labour Law Department, Institute of Law, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine. Managing Editors: Dr. Yuliia Baklazhenko, PhD (Pedagogy), MA in Translation, Assoc. Prof. at the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Ukraine; Dr. Serhij Kravtsov, PhD (Law), Assoc. Prof. at the Civil Procedure Department, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Ukraine. Language Editor Deborah A Geil. Assistant Editor Mag. Polina Siedova, Master in Law, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Ukraine. For further information on our activities and services, please visit our website http://ajee-journal.com. To submit your manuscript, please follow the instructions in our Guide. Papers and abstracts should be submitted online to one of the following email addresses: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. © AJEE, 2020 ISSN 2663-0575 EELRC Publishing House VD ‘Dakor’ Access to Justice in Eastern Europe Issue 4 (8) December 2020 doi.org/10.33327/AJEE-18-3.4 TABLE OF CONTENTS Editor-in-Chief’s Note About Issue 4/2020 178 Research Articles Van Rhee C.H., Maan E.A. Civil Procedure Reform: the Way Forward 180 Uhrynovska Oksana Novelization of Civil Procedural Legislation of Ukraine in Cassation Review: Panacea or Illusion? 209 Ovcharenko Olena, Podorozhna Tetiana Judge Lustration in Ukraine: National Insights and European Implications 226 Kaplina Oksana, Fomin Serhiy Proportionality of Interference with the Right to Peaceful Enjoyment of Property During the Seizure of Property in Criminal Proceedings in Ukraine 246 Ervo Laura Debtors Protection and Enforcement Efficiency According to Finnish Law 265 Case Notes Kuibida Roman Constitutional Court Strikes the Anti-Corruption System in Ukraine 283 Voitovych Pavlo, Ennan Ruslan, Voloshyna Vladlena Criminal Liability for the Infringement of IP Rights: Ukraine and the European Court of Human Rights Case Law 291 Reforms Forum Basysta Iryna, Shepitko Iryna and Shutova Olga Protection and Risks of Illegal Divulgation of Banking Secrecy in Ukrainian Criminal Proceeding 298 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF’S NOTE ABOUT ISSUE 4/2020 This AJEE issue begins with the article of C.H. Van Rhee and E.A. Maan, which is based on a report evaluating the new Ukrainian Civil and Commercial Procedural Codes implementation. The article is supplemented with the questionnaires used to collect data due to the great interest to their content and its correlation to conclusions. The recent reform of procedural law in Ukraine seems to be one of the most spectacular parts of the general reform of judiciary and related institutions within the course of European integration of Ukraine. The goals and the interim results of this process are among the most favorite topics for researchers and now we have a unique opportunity to acknowledge the assessment of leading European experts in this field. The procedural issues of cassation review in Ukraine is in the spotlight of this issue. The ongoing changes of civil procedural legislation have introduced so-called filters of cassation, which should help to avoid overloading of the Supreme Court - each year they receive more than 20, 000 applications, which is 500 applications per each Cassation Court judge annually. The article by Oksana Uhrynovska gives detailed research of the mentioned filters and assesses them as a positive step in forming the cassation appeal institution, in particular, letting the Supreme Court in Ukraine be a court of law, not facts. The question of a judge position as a main representative of judiciary system, a face of judiciary, is always topical. Recent process of Ukrainian judges lustration has illustrated the phenomenon of mixed political and social impacts with the doubted results. In the article of Olena Ovcharenko and Tetiana Podorozhna deep analysis of the judges lustration in Ukraine is presented. The issues of interference with the peaceful enjoyment of property require proportionnality of interference, which are profoundly studied in the article of Oksana Kaplina and Serhiy Fomin. Ukrainian examples illustrating this issue contribute to to the general approach developing. Concluding the part with the research articles, we are happy to present Laura Ervo’s contribution related to the debtor’s protection and ensuring the enforcement efficiency. The Finnish law gives us some answers to the important questions of human rights protection, when enforcement of decision is going to happen. 178 ACCESS TO JUSTICE IN EASTERN EUROPE, ISSUE NO. 4(8)/2020 A few notes have been included in this issue due to their value and relevance. In particular, the note related to the the constitutional crisis in Ukraine, which happened in recent months due to the imbalance of executive and judiciary branches. Roman Kuibida's contribution gives us an opportunity to look more deeply inside the ongoing anti-corruption problems of Ukrainian reality. The next note includes some interesting remarks devoted to the criminal liability for the infringement of IP rights. The topic of protection and risks of illegal divulgation of banking secrecy in Ukrainian law was analysed in the note. Some of the author’s recommendations concerning the bank secrecy’s apparent risk are worth attention of our audience. Last, we are happy to announce that our Editor-in-Chief has become a member of European Association of Science Editors (EASE). Conveying our sincere willingness to cooperate and to contribute to the activities of the EASE, we express our great support of values disseminated by this association! Editor in Chief Dr. Iryna Izarova Institute of Law, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine EDITOR-IN-CHIEF’S NOTE 179 RESEARCH ARTICLES Access to Justice in Eastern Europe, Issue 4 (8) 2020 ISSN 2663-0575 (Print) ISSN 2663-0583 (Online) http://ajee-journal.com 10.33327/AJEE-18-3.4 C.H. van Rhee, E.A. Maan ‘Civil Procedure Reform: The Way Forward’ 2020 4(8) Access to Justice in Eastern Europe 180-208 10.33327/AJEE-18-3.4-a000035 CIVIL PROCEDURE REFORM: THE WAY FORWARD1* Prof. Dr. C.H. (Remco) van Rhee Professor of Comparative Civil Procedure, Maastrich­­­t University, Netherlands, Expert EU funded project Pravo-Justice E.A. Maan Former President of the General Court of First Instance in Zwolle (1992-2006), Netherlands,