On 20 January 2002 the conference of the union of the parents of servicemen perished in peaceful time was held in Kharkov. The participants of the conference undersigned a letter to the President and the Supreme Rada. This letter demands to adopt the special law concerning the parents of servicemen perished in the peaceful time

Ruslan Antonik, the manager-editor of the People’s TV company of Ukraine, was accused murdering a businessman and condemned to 13 years. Antonik’s advocate and the journalists, who investigated and reflected this case in the press, discuss the arguments of the prosecution and come to the conclusion that this criminal case was falsified.

It is told how a citizen K. was arrested for a crime he had never committed, what kinds of pressure were applied to him and his advocate, and how some militia officers were punished for this after all.

Sergey Potamanov disagrees with his verdict and his appeal of is being considered in the appellation court and the European Court of human rights.

The law ’On prosecutor’s office’ substantially changed the functions of prosecutor’s offices passing most of them to courts. The author analyzes how the situation has changed.

The author’s meditations about the right of cassation with ’PL’ comment.

The Kharkov Union of soldiers’ mothers permanently monitors the quality of recruits from Kharkov and the Kharkov oblast. The article presents the results of such monitoring.

The judge was obviously biased, but could not find arguments in favor of the needed decision. So, after a long court session, she used a quibble, which she could use even before the trial.