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ORCID: 0000-0003-0413-1836

DOI 10.37566/2707-6849-2020-2(31)-6

Oleksandr ISCHENKO,

Deputy Head, the Department of Scientific and Methodological Support for the Activities of Judges and Judicial Governments, Candidate of Law Sciences

IN SEARCH OF A BALANCE BETWEEN ENSURING ACCESS TO COURT DECISIONS AND THE INADMISSIBILITY OF DISCLOSURE OF PRE-TRIAL INVESTIGATION INFORMATION

The article considers problematic issues related to ensuring access to court decisions, including full access to the Unified State Register of Court Decisions, in the context of implementation of the constitutional principle of publicity of proceedings and inadmissibility of disclosure of pre-trial investigation information, especially in court decisions. There are proposals to revise and supplement the High Council of Justice with the provisions of the Procedure for maintaining the Unified State Register of Court Decisions, as well as the legal framework for access to court decisions, in particular Articles 2 and 4 of the Law of Ukraine «On Access to Court Decisions».

Summing up, an author notes that finding a reasonable balance between ensuring access to court decisions in the context of implementing the constitutional principle of publicity of proceedings and the inadmissibility of disclosure of pre-trial investigation, especially in court decisions, is a practical requirement today. The answer to this in the short term may be a revision and amendment by the High Council of Justice of the Unified State Register of Judgments, and in the medium term - a revision of the legal framework for access to judgments, including Articles 2 and 4 of the Law of Ukraine «On Access to Judgments». Such measures, in our opinion, will only strengthen the practical implementation of the constitutional principles of transparency of the judiciary.

Key words: transparency of the judiciary, transparency of court proceedings, access to court decisions, inadmissibility of disclosure of information of pre-trial investigation.

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