Publicity of court proceedings

The principle of public access to justice means that the trial and the procedural documents are pub-lic. Thus, everyone has the right to be present at the public hearing of the case and to be informed of the public procedural documents, unless there are other factors limiting the disclosure.

The trial before the administrative court is mainly written. Publicity is thus primarily realised as the right to be informed of public procedural documents. However, data protection provisions may also affect the conditions for the disclosure of public documents.