According to the Law of Ukraine «About the order of illumination of activity of bodies of the government and institutions of local government in Ukraine mass media» illumination of activity of courts of the general jurisdiction of Ukraine and the Constitutional Court of Ukraine it is carried out by audiovisual mass media on the basis of prisoners between them of agreements and in view of specificity of job of these courts.
The law of Ukraine «About судоустройстве Ukraine» opens a principle of publicity of litigation:
Nobody can be limited in right on reception in court of the oral or written information concerning results of consideration of his{its} action of proceeding.
Consideration celebrate in courts occurs openly, except for the cases stipulated by the remedial law.
The domestic legislation recently has replenished with the Law of Ukraine «About access to judgements» (has come into force since June, 1, 2006), that with the purpose of maintenance of an openness of activity of courts of the general jurisdiction, прогнозованості judgements and assistance to identical application of the legislation defines{determines} the order of access to judgements.
If earlier the legislation guaranteed access to judgements only to persons who took part in business, and also to persons who did not take participation in business if the court has decided a question about their rights, freedom or a duty the Law of Ukraine «About access to judgements» guarantees to everyone the right on access to judgements in the order, certain{determined} by the Law.
For access to judgements of courts of the general jurisdiction the State judicial administration of Ukraine provides conducting the Uniform state registry of judgements. The uniform state registry of judgements (further - the Registry) - the automated system of collecting, preservation, protection, the account, search and granting of electronic copies of judgements.
The order of conducting the Registry is authorized by the Order of the Cabinet of Ukraine from 25.05.2006 № 740 «About the statement About conducting the Uniform state registry of judgements».
