Advocates should ask the TD CSS about court visits by the parties to the proceedings

Since information on persons admitted to court premises is collected in the territorial departments of the Court Security Service, it is better to send lawyers' requests for information on the date and time of court visits by the parties to the trial there.

The acting head of the Judicial Protection Service, Petro Talpa, drew attention to this in a letter to the Ukrainian National Bar Association.

He noted that during 2024, the number of such lawyer requests to the central management body of the CSS increased significantly. However, the information requested by lawyers is not generated or accumulated there. And this is indicated in the responses to lawyers.

The Head of the Service reminded that the CSS consists of a central management body and territorial departments, which are formed as legal entities. In accordance with the tasks assigned to them, it is the TDs that ensure the admission of persons to the buildings (premises) of courts, bodies and institutions of the justice system and vehicles to their territory. Information on persons admitted to court premises is recorded by the TD CSS employees in the visitors' log.

Therefore, in order to expedite the receipt by lawyers of information necessary for the defense, representation and provision of other types of legal assistance to the client, as well as to avoid duplicate operations when working with documents, the Court Security Service suggests that lawyers send requests for information on the issue at hand directly to the relevant territorial departments of the Court Security Service.