The Superior Council of Magistracy (SCM) 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. The regulations were proposed by the Supreme Court of Justice, IPN reports.
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 list of cases that are to be tried will be published on the website of the court of law and in a place accessible to the public at least three days before the hearing, indicating the number of the case, the name of the judge or judges who will examine the case, the date, hour and place of the hearing, the names of parties, the object of the case and data about the character of the hearing (open or closed). The list of cases will be removed from the website after the hearing.
All the decisions of the courts of law and the Appeals Courts will be published on the national portal of courts of law after these are introduced in the Intergraded Case Management Program. The judgments of the Supreme Court of Justice will be published on its website after this stage is covered. The access to court decisions published on the website of courts of law is free and implies no registration.
The names of the parties involved in a trail will not be concealed in the court judgments that will be published on the national portal of courts of law or on the website of the Supreme Court of Justice, 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.
The following personal data will always be hidden: persons’ place and date of birth; domicile and/or residence; phone number; personal code; data about the state of health, regardless of suffered diseases; banking data; registration number of the car; personal health insurance code, and other data defined in the Law on Personal Data Protection.
The regulations will take effect when they are published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Moldova.
