Publicity of court proceedings

Publicity of court proceedings in administrative courts

In administrative courts the proceedings are in the main written, so the publicity of court proceedings mainly means the right to of access to public trial documents, i.e. the judgment.

The hearing and the trial documents in administrative courts are public, unless they concern a matter that according to law is to be kept secret in administration. The status of an administrative matter does not change when proceedings are instituted in an administrative court. However, in certain cases exceptions to the secrecy provisions can be made. This means that the administrative court may order that some parts of the matter are public regardless of the secrecy provisions.

Provisions on the publicity of hearings in administrative courts are included in the Act on the publicity of court proceedings in administrative courts (381/2007), which entered into force on 1 October 2007.

The publicity of the basic information on court proceedings
The publicity of trial documents
Publicity of the oral hearing
Publicity of the judgment

Updated on 13 May 2011