Dmytro Kukhnyuk

Dmytro Kukhnyuk

Expert of the «Tomorrow’s Lawyer» Program, advocate, candidate of judicial sciences, Senior Lecturer of Notary Activities and Enforcement Department at the Law Faculty of Kiev National University after Taras Shevchenko, Managing Partner at Miller, Kukhnyuk & Partners Attorneys at Law.

SPECIALIZATION:

Advocacy, criminal process, litigation in civil economic and administrative cases; protection and representation of interests in criminal proceedings; legal support of commercial activities.

EDUCATION:

  • Candidate of judicial sciences, «Judicial precedent as a source of criminal procedural law of Ukraine» (12.00.09), 2008;
  • Kyiv University after Taras Shevchenko, specialty «Jurisprudence», qualification – lawyer 1990 – 1995.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

  • Assistant Professor, Senior Lecturer at Notary Activities and Enforcement Department at the Law Faculty of Kyiv National University after Taras Shevchenko, December 2011 – till present;
  • Managing Partner at Miller, Kukhnyuk & Partners Attorneys at Law, September 2012 – till present;
  • Assistant at Justice Department at the Law Faculty of Kyiv National University. Shevchenko, September 1998 – August 2011;
  • Individual advocacy practice, May 1996 – September 2012.

ACTIVITIES RELATED TO THE LEGAL PROFESSION AND PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS:

  • Member of Editorial Board at «Ukrainian Advocate» Magazine, 2006 – till present;
  • Member of the Ukrainian Bar Association, 2002 – till present;
  • Member of the Audit Committee, member of the Board of the Ukrainian Bar Association, 2002-2009;
  • First Vice-President of the Ukrainian Bar Association, 2006 – 2011;
  • Expert of the programs implemented by the OSCE Project Coordinator in Ukraine on professional training for judges and advocates, 2011 – till present;
  • Member of the Working Group on Advocacy at the Council on Judicial Reform, 2016 – til present;
  • Lectures and training courses: «Bar in Ukraine», «Methods of implementation of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights in the Ukrainian legal practice», «Issues of building defence and representation of interests in the criminal proceedings», «International standards of organisation and activities of the Bar», «Advocacy as a human rights protection tool of civil society»;
  • Author and co-author of over 40 scientific and educational papers.

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