The Chamber brings together lawyers who work in the Netherlands, or who want to work on legal questions affecting war victims.
Lawyers with a Ukrainian legal education or professional qualification — lawyer, jurist, notary, judge, public prosecutor or academic. The Council may also admit other lawyers and experts. Participation is personal and voluntary; in elections each participant has one vote. Participants are not remunerated.
The Council consists of five participants, elected by all participants for a term of two years and without limit on re-election. The Council decides on the admission of participants and the termination of participation, and advises the chair. Decisions are taken by majority, remotely if necessary.
The participants elect a chair from among themselves for a term of one year; the same person cannot serve more than two consecutive terms. The chair leads the Chamber, represents it externally, signs its correspondence, and may appoint a deputy and coordinators. The board grants the elected chair a standing power of attorney within fourteen days.
The chair may establish working groups, which work under a coordinator and report to the chair. The working groups cover residence and temporary protection, reception and social rights, sanctions compliance and international criminal law, and professional integration and training.
The Chamber has no assets of its own: income and expenditure run through the foundation and its budget. Gifts, subsidies and other contributions for the Chamber accrue to the foundation and are spent on the Chamber’s activities. Participants work unpaid, unless the board decides otherwise; costs approved in advance may be reimbursed.
The chair keeps a register of the Chamber’s activities and outgoing documents, and reports in writing to the board before 1 March each year. The board incorporates the main lines of that report into the foundation’s annual report — so the work of the Chamber is covered in the annual ANBI reporting.
Get in touch with the Chamber and tell us briefly who you are and where your expertise lies.
The Council decides on admission as a participant. Participation is personal and voluntary.
Work on ongoing cases, join a working group or take part in the meetings.
As a participant you elect the chair once a year and the Council every two years.
Participation is voluntary, personal and unpaid. Joining the Chamber is not a membership of the foundation: the foundation has no members.
The Council of the Ukrainian Legal Chamber consists of five participants elected by all participants for a term of two years. They are eligible for re-election without limit. The Council decides on the admission of participants and on the termination of participation, and advises the chair of the Chamber. The Council and the chair are organs of the Chamber, not of the foundation.