President approved the changes in the law ‘On the status of judges’

On 31 July President Leonid Kuchma signed a law that introduces changes to Article 38 of the law of Ukraine ‘On the status of judges’, according to which the Supreme Rada now has the right to suspend the power of judges and give agreement with their detainment or arrest in the cases stipulated in the Constitution and mentioned in the corresponding law. In the previous version the law ‘On the status of judges’ did not contain the reference to obey the norms of the Constitution and the corresponding law. Our informant