[1][2] In 2015, Golnyk published two videos showing attempts to pressure her to close a case of alleged corruption by Oleksandr Mamay [uk], mayor of Poltava at the time, under the Administrative Code of Ukraine.
[1] Golnyk accused the chair of Oktyabrsky Court, Oleksandr Strukov of assaulting her in relation to the Mamay case.
Golnyk's lawyer Roman Maselko interpreted the failure to confirm the lifetime appointment as possibly being "a signal from the president to a disloyal judge".
[5] In June 2022, the Ukrainian Ethics Council refused Golnyk membership in the High Council of Justice, on the grounds that she had published a Facebook post criticising other members of the Oktyabrsky Court for re-electing Oleksandr Strukov as chair of the court.
She stated that "some judges carry out their direct responsibilities only under attentive external control exercised by the public, mass media, politicians and other authorities".