The Verkhovna Rada is going to prohibit the disclosure of individual information from court decisions during the martial law.
On Thursday, 250 People’s Deputies voted for the corresponding draft law No. 7033-d on amendments to some laws regarding the prevention of disclosure of certain information in the texts of court decisions in the first reading.
The draft law proposes to introduce an amendment to the law “On Access to Court Decisions”, according to which access (general and full) to decisions on the seizure of property and temporary access to things and documents, on the refusal to grant a petition on the seizure of property, on permission to search a house or other property of a person, on the refusal to grant a request for a house search, on permission to conduct an undercover investigative (search) action, on the refusal to grant a request to conduct an undercover investigative (search) action in criminal cases, as well as to the texts of court decisions, is provided one year after the entry of such decisions into the Unified State Register of Court Decisions.
The draft law also proposes to limit the publication of the following information in the texts of court decisions open to public access: the names of military administration bodies, units, military units, institutions of higher education, military educational units of higher education, institutions and organizations; names of entities that are part of the defense-industrial complex of Ukraine; addresses of locations and names of critical infrastructure objects; addresses of locations and names of state-owned objects that are of critical importance for the defense-industrial complex of Ukraine. It is proposed to replace such information with letter or numerical designations.
The draft law also provides for restrictions during the legal regime of martial law on the territory of Ukraine, general access to court decisions in criminal proceedings against persons who are suspected or accused of committing criminal offenses against the foundations of national security, in the field of protection of state secrets, inviolability of state borders, provision of conscription and mobilization or against the established order of military service.
General access to relevant decisions is proposed to be provided one year after the end (cancellation) of martial law.
In addition, the draft law stipulates that during the period of martial law, the court is given the right, when sending the decision to the Register, to determine exactly what information is not subject to disclosure (publication), if the court proceedings took place in an open court session, but the disclosure of individual information, in the opinion of the court, may compromise security.
