# Ministry of Justice (Ukraine)

The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Міністерство юстиції України, romanized: Ministerstvo yustytsiyi Ukrayiny), abbr. Minjust [of Ukraine], is the main body in the system of central government of Ukraine that regulates state legal policy. It is one of the oldest ministerial offices of the country tracing its history back to the beginning of 20th century.

## Main objectives

* Ensuring realization of the state legal policy and the policy in the sphere of adaptation of the legislation of Ukraine to the legislation of the European Union.
* Preparation of propositions in conducting legal reforms and promoting development of a legal science.
* Ensuring the protection of rights and freedoms of a human and a citizen in the specific field.
* Preparation of propositions in improvement of legislation, its systematization, development of projects of legal acts and international agreements of Ukraine in legal affairs, conducting a legal expertise of projects of legal acts, state registration of legal acts, maintaining the Unified state registry of such acts.
* Planning by the proposals of other central bodies of executive power of legislative proceedings and actions in adaptation of the legislation of Ukraine to the legislation of the European Union.
* Coordination of actions in implementation of the National program in adaptation of the legislation of Ukraine to the legislation of the European Union.
* Organization of implementing the decisions of judges and other authorities (officials) according to the laws, working with human resources, expert support of justice.
* Organization of notary performance and the authorities in registration of acts of civil status.
* Developing a legal informativeness and forming in citizens a legal outlook.
* Fulfilling an international legal cooperation.

## Structure

The ministry consists of the central body of ministry headed by its leadership composed of a minister, his/hers first deputy, and other deputies in assistance to the minister. To the central body of ministry also belongs the government official in affairs of the European Court of Human Rights, who represents Ukraine in the mentioned international institution. The ministry regulates and controls activities of notaries (legal law representatives and executives) in Ukraine.
There are several state departments and agencies that are assigned to the leadership of the ministry, each deputy of which is also assigned a territorial representation of local authorities of justice.
* State Archive Service of Ukraine
* State Executive Service of Ukraine
* State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine
** The agency, headquartered in Kyiv, operates the country's prisons.
* State Registration Service of Ukraine
* State Service of Ukraine for protection of personal data

## List of ministers of justice

| Name of parent agency | Chairman of government | Name of minister | Term of office | Term of office |
| Name of parent agency | Chairman of government | Name of minister | Start | End |
| General Secretariat of Ukraine | Volodymyr Vynnychenko | Valentyn Sadovsky | 28 June 1917 | 13 August 1917 |
| General Secretariat of Ukraine | Volodymyr Vynnychenko | Mykhailo Tkachenko | 12 November 1917 | 23 January 1918 |
| Council of People's Ministers | Volodymyr Vynnychenko | Mykhailo Tkachenko | 23 January 1918 | February 1918 |
| Council of People's Ministers | Vsevolod Holubovych | Serhiy Shelukhin | February 1918 | 29 April 1918 |
| Council of Ministers (1918) | Fedir Lyzohub | Mikhail Chubinsky | 30 April 1918 | 24 August 1918 |
| Council of Ministers (1918) | Fedir Lyzohub | Aleksei Romanov | August 1918 | 25 October 1918 |
| Council of Ministers (1918) | Fedir Lyzohub | Andrei Vyazlov | 25 October 1918 | 14 November 1918 |
| Council of Ministers (1918) | Sergei Gerbel | Viktor Reinbot | 14 November 1918 | 14 December 1918 |
| Council of People's Ministers | Volodymyr Chekhivsky | Serhiy Shelukhin (acting) | | |
| Council of People's Ministers | Volodymyr Chekhivsky | Viktor Prykhodko | | |
| Council of People's Ministers | Volodymyr Chekhivsky | Hryhoriy Syrotenko | | 13 February 1919 |
| Council of People's Ministers | Serhiy Ostapenko | Dmytro Markovych | 13 February 1919 | 9 April 1919 |
| Council of People's Ministers | Borys Martos | Andriy Livytskyi | 9 April 1919 | 5 August 1921 |
| Council of People's Ministers | Isaak Mazepa | Andriy Livytskyi | 9 April 1919 | 5 August 1921 |
| Council of People's Ministers | Vyacheslav Prokopovych | Andriy Livytskyi | 9 April 1919 | 5 August 1921 |
| Council of People's Ministers | Andriy Livytskyi | Andriy Livytskyi | 9 April 1919 | 5 August 1921 |
| Council of People's Ministers | Vyacheslav Prokopovych | Andriy Livytskyi | 9 April 1919 | 5 August 1921 |
| Temporary Peasant-Worker's Government | Georgy Pyatakov | Aleksandr Khmelnitskiy | 28 November 1918 | May 1919 |
| All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee | Christian Rakovsky | Mikhail Lebedinets | May 1919 | August 1919 |
| People's Commissariat of UkrSSR | Christian Rakovsky | Yevgeniy Tereletsky | 20 February 1920 | 3 March 1921 |
| People's Commissariat of UkrSSR | Christian Rakovsky | Sergei Buzdalin | 1921 | 1921 |
| People's Commissariat of UkrSSR | Christian Rakovsky | Mikhail Vetoshkin | January 1922 | 1922 |
| People's Commissariat of UkrSSR | Christian Rakovsky | Mykola Skrypnyk | 1922 | 1923 |
| People's Commissariat of UkrSSR | Vlas Chubar | Mykola Skrypnyk | 1923 | 1927 |
| People's Commissariat of UkrSSR | Vlas Chubar | Vasyl Poraiko | 5 March 1927 | 10 July 1930 |
| People's Commissariat of UkrSSR | Vlas Chubar | Vasyl Polyakov | September 1930 | 1933 |
| People's Commissariat of UkrSSR | Vlas Chubar | Mykhailo Mykhailyk | July 1933 | January 1935 |
| People's Commissariat of UkrSSR | Panas Lyubchenko | Arkadiy Kiselyov-Kesler | January 1935 | August 1936 |
| People's Commissariat of UkrSSR | Panas Lyubchenko | Khoma Radchenko | September 1936 | 1937 |
| People's Commissariat of UkrSSR | Mykhailo Bondarenko | Khoma Radchenko | 1937 | 1937 |
| People's Commissariat of UkrSSR | Demian Korotchenko | Mykola Babchenko | June 1938 | 1939 |
| People's Commissariat of UkrSSR | Leonid Korniyets | Mykola Babchenko | 1939 | 1944 |
| People's Commissariat of UkrSSR | Nikita Khrushchev | Mykola Babchenko | 1944 | 1946 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of UkrSSR | Nikita Khrushchev | Mykola Babchenko | 1946 | March 1947 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of UkrSSR | Demian Korotchenko | Denis Panasyuk | March 1947 | January 1953 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of UkrSSR | Demian Korotchenko | Fedir Hlukh | January 1953 | 1954 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of UkrSSR | Nykyfor Kalchenko | Fedir Hlukh | 1954 | March 1957 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of UkrSSR | Nykyfor Kalchenko | Kateryna Zghurska | March 1957 | 1961 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of UkrSSR | Volodymyr Shcherbytskyi | Kateryna Zghurska | 1961 | April 1963 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of UkrSSR | Volodymyr Shcherbytskyi | Volodymyr Zaichuk | 1970 | 1972 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of UkrSSR | Oleksandr Lyashko | Volodymyr Zaichuk | 1972 | 1987 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of UkrSSR | Vitaliy Masol | Volodymyr Zaichuk | 1987 | 1990 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Vitold Fokin | Vitaliy Boiko | 2 August 1990 | 20 March 1992 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Vitold Fokin | Volodymyr Kampo | 20 March 1992 | 21 April 1992 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Leonid Kuchma | Vasyl Onopenko | 27 October 1992 | 16 June 1994 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Vitaliy Masol | Vasyl Onopenko | 16 June 1994 | 7 August 1995 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Yevhen Marchuk | Serhiy Holovatyi | 27 September 1995 | 28 May 1996 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Pavlo Lazarenko | Serhiy Holovatyi | 28 May 1996 | 21 August 1997 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Valeriy Pustovoitenko | Suzanna Stanik [1st female] | 21 August 1997 | 22 December 1999 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Viktor Yushchenko | Suzanna Stanik [1st female] | 22 December 1999 | 29 May 2001 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Anatoliy Kinakh | Suzanna Stanik [1st female] | 29 May 2001 | 7 May 2002 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Anatoliy Kinakh | Oleksandr Lavrynovych | 7 May 2002 | 21 November 2002 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Viktor Yanukovych | Oleksandr Lavrynovych | 21 November 2002 | 4 February 2005 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Yulia Tymoshenko | Roman Zvarych | 4 February 2005 | 27 September 2005 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Yuriy Yekhanurov | Serhiy Holovatyi | 27 September 2005 | 4 August 2006 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Viktor Yanukovych | Roman Zvarych | 4 August 2006 | 1 November 2006 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Viktor Yanukovych | Oleksandr Lavrynovych | 1 November 2006 | 18 December 2007 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Yulia Tymoshenko | Mykola Onishchuk | 18 December 2007 | 11 March 2010 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Mykola Azarov | Oleksandr Lavrynovych | 11 March 2010 | 2 July 2013 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Mykola Azarov | Olena Lukash | 4 July 2013 | 27 February 2014 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Arseniy Yatsenyuk | Pavlo Petrenko | 27 February 2014 | 14 April 2016 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Volodymyr Groysman | Pavlo Petrenko | 14 April 2016 | 29 August 2019 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Oleksiy Honcharuk | Denys Maliuska | 29 August 2019 | 4 September 2024 |
| Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine | Denys Shmyhal | Olha Stefanishyna | 5 September 2024 | present |