The Moldovans’ confidence in justice is not so high for the parties involved in a trial to be concealed, executive director of the Legal Resources Center Vlad Gribincea stated in the talk show “Expertise hour” on Jurnal TV channel, IPN reports.
According to Gribincea, the idea of publishing court decisions appeared owing to the population’s distrust in the justice sector. “I don’t think that confidence in justice is so high that we should close the shutters and say that from now on you will not know who the parties in a trial are. The proposed measures would have undermined confidence in justice even more,” he stated.
Journalist Vitalie Calugareanu said that with the theft of the US$1 billion and the unjust enrichment of people who came to power in Moldova, investigative journalism started to develop. “The journalists started to investigate how the people who came to power steal and this started to bother some of the senior officials and these thus found this leverage to hamper the investigative journalists’ access to these very important materials,” stated the journalist.
Anatolie Turcan, a member of the Superior Council of Magistracy, noted the necessity of protecting personal data didn’t appear after the banking frauds or after the hunting incident that happened in the Domneasca Forest, as they say. It is a normal thing met in the European states. “I assure you that when the court considers that the secrecy is not needed, it will not order to ensure secrecy,” he stated.
The Superior Council of Magistracy on October 10 approved the regulations concerning the method of publishing court judgments on the national portal of courts of law and on the website of the Supreme Court of Justice. Under the regulations, the conditions of publishing court decisions on the national portal of courts of law or on the website of the Supreme Court of Justice can be restricted in the interests of morality, public order or national security or for the purpose of protecting the private life of the parties in a trial, or to the extent to which the court considers necessary when the interests of justice are affected, in particular circumstances. The names of the parties involved in a trail will not be concealed in the court judgments that will be published, with some exceptions. The names of minors and family names of persons will not be yet revealed, if only in cases where the minors are investigated as authors, instigators or accomplices in contravention or criminal cases.
