LAW OF UKRAINE

of December 22, 2005 No. 3262-IV

About access to judgments

This Law determines procedure for access to judgments for the purpose of ensuring openness of activity of the courts of the general jurisdiction, prognozirovannost of judgments and assistance to identical application of the legislation.

Article 1. Subject of regulation of the Law

1. This Law governs the relations concerning ensuring access to judgments (decisions, writs, resolutions, sentences, determinations) accepted by courts of law and maintaining the Unified state register of judgments.

Article 2. Openness of judgments

1. The judgment is proclaimed publicly, except cases when consideration of the case was conducted in the closed judicial session. Everyone has the right to access to judgments according to the procedure, determined by this Law.

2. Judgments are open and are subject to promulgation electronically no later than the next day after their production and signing, except resolutions on seizure of property and temporary access to things and documents on criminal proceedings, resolutions of economic court on provision of permission to bodies of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine on conducting check of subjects of managing, associations, authorities, local government bodies, bodies of administrative management and control and/or making of legal proceedings, stipulated by the legislation about protection of the economic competition, in the form of the carrying out survey, seizure, sealing (sealing), withdrawal which are subject to promulgation not earlier than day of their appeal to execution. Judgments can be also published in printing editions with observance of requirements of this Law.

If legal proceedings happened in the closed judicial session, the judgment is published with exception of information which by a court decision on consideration of the case in the closed judicial session is subject to protection against disclosure. In the cases determined by the law the judgment on provision of permission to the holding prospecting action or on refusal in provision of such permission which is taken out in the closed judicial session is not announced and not published.

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