Vinnytsia District Administrative Court has opened proceedings on the lawsuit by the NGO National Automaidan Association against the Vinnytsia City Court. The activists demand the court’s refusal to share public information be acknowledged as illegal and the court be ordered to disclose the data.
The decision to open proceedings entered into force on 23 March 2026. Case No. 120/3532/26 will be tried by Judge Lyudmyla Zabrotska, reports the Institute of Mass Information’s regional representative.
In late January, Automaidan representatives sent a query requesting information about the Vinnytsia City Court judges and a list of assistants assigned to each judge. The court refused to provide the information.
The IMI representative says that the activists needed the information for the project “The First Open Database of Judges’ Assistants”, which Automaidan created some years earlier. The website collects data about judges and their assistants from nearly all regions across Ukraine. The resource is used by journalists covering the judicial system.
After the refusal to provide information, the organisation sued. The case will be tried in simplified claim proceedings: without summoning the parties, in written format, based on the files provided.
Vinnytsia City Court has 15 days to file a response to the claim and documents justifying the refusal. The judge said that ignoring this requirement without good reason may be regarded as an admission of the claim.
