ADMINISTRATIVE CASES PUBLICITY The schedule of hearings in administrative cases was posted on the web-site of the court in 95% of cases monitored. The information about cases was posted on the court’s information board less often – in 89% of cases. In 99% of cases the monitors were allowed into the room where the consideration of the administrative case took place (courtroom or judges’ chambers). In 83% of cases the courts heard the administrative case in the courtroom. From the questionnaire of a monitor on an administrative case: “The court hearing took place in the judges’ chambers, while there was a vacant courtroom available”. In most cases (68%) the judges were not interested in who else, except the parties to the administrative case, came to the hearing. In 95% of cases, when opening the court hearing, the court announced which case was being considered; in 88% of cases the presiding judge announced the composition of the court at the hearing. In 97% of cases the monitors had no obstacles from the court in making audio recordings of the proceedings. In 96% of cases, when a court judgement was supposed to be pronounced, the court did this publicly. The judges usually announced the introductory and dispositive parts of the court judgement. From the questionnaire of a monitor on an administrative case in a first instance court of general jurisdiction: “The judge never returned from the deliberations room, and the secretary announced the judgement”. PUBLICITY IN ADMINISTRATIVE CASES 4 -5 Report on the findings of the first trial monitoring programme in Ukraine 0 5 57