Directions for use

Judgments of courts of the first instance and those of courts of appeal that have entered into force and are to be made publicly available are accessible to the public. The judicial decisions can be separately searched from the administrative, misdemeanour, civil and criminal matters. First the users must choose which matters they want to search the decision from. Different judicial decisions can be searched according to different parameters. Searches can be made amongst all matters according to the following characteristics:

1)  number of the matter;

2)  interval between the dates of the judicial decisions; it is possible to choose amongst the following dates:

• date of arrival;
• date of a decision of a court of first instance;
• date of entry into force of a decision of a court of first instance;
• decision of a court of appeal.

3)  court;

4)  judge’s name or code;

5)  keyword search – keyword search from the text. It is possible to choose whether to search from the text of of a decision of a court of first instance or a decision of a court of appeal.

In addition to the listed characteristics searches regarding specific matters can be made according to additional characteristics, which are characteristic to the specific proceedings.

Search for administrative matters

In case of administrative matters an additional search can be made according to the following characteristics:

1)  name of the person who has filed the action or the notice of appeal;

2)  category of the matter;

3)  type of the matter (possible to choose following the selection of the category);

4)  institution subject to the action or appeal.

Search for misdemeanour matters

In case of misdemeanour matters an additional search can be made according to the following characteristics:

1)  name of the person subject to proceedings;

2)  type of the misdemeanour matter

Search for civil matters

In case of civil matters an additional search can be made according to the following characteristics:

1)  person related to the matter; it is possible to search by the following persons involved:

• plaintiff;
• defentant;
• third party.

2)  category of the matter;

3)  type of the matter (possible to choose following the selection of the category).

Search for criminal matters

In case of civil matters an additional search can be made according to the following characteristics:

1)  name of the accused at trial;

2)  sections – it is possible to search by the sections of the Penal Code and the Criminal Code and according to whether the person concerned is:

• charged with the criminal offence;
• prosecuted;
• convicted I in the first instance;
• convicted in the second instance;
• acquitted in the first instance;
• acquitted in the second instance.

After the entry of search conditions the court matters meeting specific conditions and which have a public judicial decision or the relative part thereof, will be displayed on the screen. A % mark is used as a substitute character. Names including inconvenient letters (e.g. š, ž etc) should be searched for by way of replacing unclear places by % mark. In case if there are more judicial decisions matching the query than the restriction set for public searches prescribes, an amount of judicial decisions determined by a parameter of public restriction will be issued.

Form of public reports

On the form of report users can search for reports on the basis of their indications, codes and period:

1)  indication of report

• HA (AM)– administrative matters;
• HO (MM)– administrative offence matter (misdemeanour matters);
• TS (CM)– civil matters;
• KR (CM)– criminal matters;
• MUU (OTHER) – other reports.

2)  code of report;

3)  reporting period.

Reports matching the search results will be displayed on the screen by clicking on an appropriate radio button and then on “view”.