SUPREME COURT
REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA
Mattia Falduti
matti a. falduti@pnimi. it 10 October 2019
No.6-1119-551
Answer to your request
Dear Mattia Falduti
Please find'as follows our response to your questions below.
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
1.. Do Courts make public their decisions with the related verdicts and justifications?
Yes, they do.
If yes, please specify which court (Supreme Courts, Constitutional Courts, Administrative
Courts, Courts of Appeal, Tribunals)
Supreme court: yes.
Constitutional court: yes.
Administrative courts: yes.
Courts of appeal: yes.
Tribunals: we do not have tribunals.
2, Do Courts have a dedicated database?
Yes, they do.
If yes, please specify which court has a decisions database (Supreme Courts, Constitutional
Courts, Administrative Courts, Courts of Appeal, Tribunals)
Supreme court: yes.
Constitutional court: yes.
Administrative courts: yes.
Courts of appeal: yes.
Tribunals: we do not have tribunals.
2.1. Where are these decisions published?
The Riigi Teataja is the official online publication of the Republic of Estonia in which are
court decisions published.
l7 Lossi St,50093 Tartu, ESTONIA. Tel +3'7273:.9002, fax +3'72?30 9003, e-mail:
[email protected]
www.riigikohus.ee
2,2, Can you please name the databases or paste a link of the publisher?
htņs ://www.rii giteataj a. eelkohtulahendid/koik-menetlused.html
3. Considering Courts that publish their decisionso do they publish all their decisions
and justifications?
Yes, they usually do. Confidential decisions are published partly to protect parties.
4. Which user category can access the published decisions and justifications?
Everybody can access them.
5. Are the decisions completely anonymwed?
No, they uire not.
A court decision can be anonymized based on the court's decision or a person's application.
There are certain restrictions concerning criminal cases - a court decision cannot be
anonymized if a person has committed a criminal offence that prohibits anonymization by
law.
6. Do you have a regulation or some restrictions regarding automatic legal case
prediction (e.g., in France a recent regulation forbids the automated prediction on new
legal cases)?
No, we do not. The court takes guidance from the law in assessing all evidence in a
comprehensive, complete and objective manner and makes decisions in all conscience.
7.Do Courts have nominated aData Protection Officer (DPO) regulated at the General
Data Protection Regulation?
The Supreme Court of Estonia has nominated a Data Protection Officer, but we have no
information regarding the fact whether other courts of Estonia have nominated a Data
Protection Officer.
With kind
A
Andraš Tšitškan
Head of the legal information and judicial training department
Supreme Court of Estonia
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