The Agency for Legislative Initiatives (ALI) is starting work on a White Paper that will focus primarily on the problems of civil service and patronage service in courts of first instance and courts of appeal, as well as ways to address them. This study is a logical continuation of the Green Paper presented by ALI experts in July 2025.
The White Paper is intended to become a public policy tool and to contribute to systemic changes in attitudes towards the role of court staff in ensuring the administration of justice. In the longer term, ALI’s new study will serve as a basis for transformations in legislation and in the organisation of courts’ work.
ALI experts want to hear directly from those who ensure the daily operation of courts. This concerns civil service and patronage service staff, as well as their experience, needs, vision for change and problems.
To this end, ALI is conducting a survey and invites everyone interested to take part:
- heads of courts and their deputies: https://forms.gle/uHtC8EM9QM8VcqwA8
- heads of court offices and their deputies: https://forms.gle/vXsVhmQZ695EvKLE9
- court staff and everyone interested: https://forms.gle/yFmPM4r1arqNfHFW8
Your responses will help develop evidence-based recommendations and ensure a high-quality analytical basis for further decisions. Verified data will form the foundation for change. Last year, more than one thousand court office staff took part in the study. It was their active participation that made it possible to describe all existing problems at the level of courts of first and second instance accurately.
Research into the work of court offices is one of ALI’s priorities. After all, it is civil service and patronage service staff who ensure the daily operation of the judicial system. Without proper attention to their problems, needs and motivation, judicial reform will remain superficial, inconsistent and incomplete.
Your experience matters and can become a catalyst for change — join the survey. The deadline for completing the survey is 17 May 2026 inclusive.
The research and survey are being carried out by the Agency for Legislative Initiatives with the support of the Supreme Court and the High Council of Justice.
All questionnaires are completed anonymously, and the data are used in an aggregated form. All information received is processed by ALI experts.
The study is being implemented within the project ‘Reinforcing the European Dimension of the Ukrainian Civil Service in Law-Making, Judiciary, Finances’, implemented by ALI with the support of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).
