Conference in Zaporizhzhia

On 23–24 June 2008, a conference on “Improving criminal-executive legislation – public and scientific support” was successfully held at the Classic Private University in Zaporizhzhia with financial support from the International Renaissance Foundation.
Welcoming remarks were delivered to the conference participants by the Director of the V. Stashys Institute of Law, Professor T. A. Denysova; Deputy Head of the regional Department of the SDUEPS in the Zaporizhzhia region, V. V. Knysh; Deputy Head of the Main Department of Justice in the Zaporizhzhia region, T. V. Abramova; and the Director of the charitable organisation “Chernihiv Women’s Human Rights Centre”, V. A. Badyra.
The following participated in the conference: Doctor of Law, Professor I. H. Bohatyrov; judge of the Zavodsky District Court of Zaporizhzhia, N. V. Marchenko; Head of the Administrative and Legal Work Department of the Shevchenkivsky District Administration of Zaporizhzhia, L. A. Onishchenko; Senior Assistant Prosecutor for the supervision of compliance with laws during the execution of court decisions in criminal cases, O. O. Stulov; Deputy Head of the Notary Department of the Main Department of Justice in the Zaporizhzhia region, N. O. Subota; Deputy Head of the Civil Registry Department of the Main Department of Justice in the Zaporizhzhia region, S. H. Usenko; Head of the Social and Educational Work Sector of the SDUEPS Department in the Zaporizhzhia region, P. P. Kravchuk; heads of the departments of civil law and process, K. I. Kucheruk, and constitutional and administrative law, R. M. Aksakova, as well as other leading scholars and representatives of the public.
During the conference, issues regarding the impact of society on the processes of reforming state policy in the sphere of punishment application, the imperfection of the concept of reforming the state criminal-executive service, problems of legal and social protection of criminal-executive service personnel, problems of legal regulation of service for rank-and-file and command staff, and the role of oversight commissions in the observance of the rights and legitimate interests of convicts were discussed.
Great attention was paid to discussing issues in the sphere of civil and family-marriage legal relations, where the subjects are convicts, and problematic issues in drawing up notarial agreements, certifications, wills, powers of attorney, and transactions by convicts in places of deprivation of liberty.
The conference materials will be published in a separate edition and distributed among scholars studying criminal-executive problems and representatives of the public who collaborate with penal institutions.