overthelex/ua-court-sessions

Ukrainian Court Sessions Schedule

A dataset of 479,334 scheduled court hearings from 583 Ukrainian courts, scraped from the official court session schedules. Contains hearing datetime, judges, case numbers, parties, and case descriptions.

Dataset Description

Each record represents a single scheduled court hearing with:

• date -- hearing date and time (DD.MM.YYYY HH:MM format)
• judges -- presiding judge and panel composition
• case -- case number in Ukrainian court format (e.g., 331/4558/25)
• court_name -- full court name in Ukrainian
• court_room -- courtroom number (if assigned)
• case_involved -- parties to the case (plaintiffs, defendants, accused persons)
• case_description -- brief subject matter description (e.g., "Крадіжка", "Розлучення")
• year / month -- parsed from date for filtering

Key Statistics

Metric	Value
Total hearings	479,334
Courts	583
Time span	2025-2026
Unique case numbers	~300K
Average hearings per court	~820

Potential Use Cases

• Judicial workload analysis: Distribution of cases across courts, judges, time slots
• Named entity recognition: Judge names, party names, court names in Ukrainian legal text
• Case type classification: Predict case category from description
• Court scheduling optimization: Analyze hearing patterns, room utilization
• Judge-case assignment study: Which judges handle which case types
• Temporal analysis: Hearing distribution across days/hours, seasonal patterns

Data Quality Notes

• court_room is empty for ~45% of records (not all courts publish room assignments)
• case_involved and case_description are empty for ~5% of records
• Personal names are NOT anonymized (this is public court schedule data)
• Date format is Ukrainian (DD.MM.YYYY HH:MM)

Source

Court session schedules are published by the State Judicial Administration of Ukraine under the Law of Ukraine "On the Judiciary and Status of Judges". Data was collected from official court websites.

Citation

@dataset{ovcharov2026courtsessions,
  title={Ukrainian Court Sessions Schedule Dataset},
  author={Ovcharov, Volodymyr},
  year={2026},
  publisher={Hugging Face},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/overthelex/ua-court-sessions}
}

License

CC-BY-4.0. Source data is published by Ukrainian courts as public information per Article 11 of the Law of Ukraine "On Access to Court Decisions".