FINDINGS OF THE MONITORING BY JURISDICTION ADMINISTRATIVE CASES The monitors visited 256 administrative case hearings all over Ukraine: in first instance courts – 185 hearings; 8 60 3 256 COURT HEARINGS in courts of appeal – 60 hearings; in the High Administrative Court of Ukraine – 8 hearings; 185 in the Supreme Court of Ukraine – 3 hearings. ADHERENCE TO GENERAL RULES OF PROCEDURE According to the monitors, the judges conducted the hearings in administrative cases: 2% impeccably – in 55 % of cases; THE HEARINGS IN 43% ADMINISTRATIVE with minor violations – in 43 % of cases; CASES 55% with gross violations of the rules of procedure and/or participants’ rights – in 2 % of cases. In 90% of cases the judges considered the case wearing a robe and a badge. Judges in administrative cases verified the identity of the participants of the trial who arrived to the hearing in 98% of cases. The confidentiality of a deliberations room was observed in 96% of cases. From the questionnaire of a monitor on an administrative case considered in a first instance court of general jurisdiction: “The confidentiality of the deliberations room was not observed: after announcing that she left for the deliberations room, the judge did not leave the courtroom, but immediately told the secretary to invite the parties to the next case”. 56 MONITORING OF ADHERENCE TO FAIR TRIAL STANDARDS IN UKRAINE