The Verkhovna Rada Simplified Participation in Court Hearings via Video Conferencing
From now on, the decision to appoint a video conference for a court hearing will be made not by the entire panel, but only by the reporting judge. 263 deputies voted for the corresponding bill 11133 introduced by MP Igor Fris (“Servant of the People”).
“This will significantly simplify the procedure. Currently, the decision is made by the entire panel of judges. That is, one needs to visit each office of each judge in the panel to address such a simple issue. If we are talking about the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court, it involves 21 judges and 21 offices. When the law comes into force, it will be a significant time and human resource saver, especially when it comes to appellate or cassation instances. In this way, we will save a lot of valuable time with each decision. My colleague MP Babiy added that the possibility of a video conference can be requested not only by the parties but also by their representatives and included the possibility of using their own technical means during the video conference,” Fris explains.
The legislative initiative text submitted by Fris to the Verkhovna Rada was sent by the Scientific Research Institute of Private Law and Entrepreneurship named after academician F.G. Burchak at the beginning of the year.
One of the authors is Judge-Speaker of the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court, Kostiantyn Pilkov.
