Datasets:

overthelex
/

ua-court-sessions

language:
  - uk
license: cc-by-4.0
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M
task_categories:
  - text-classification
  - token-classification
tags:
  - legal
  - court-sessions
  - ukrainian
  - judicial-data
  - judges
  - scheduling
pretty_name: Ukrainian Court Sessions Schedule
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: date
      dtype: string
    - name: judges
      dtype: string
    - name: case
      dtype: string
    - name: court_name
      dtype: string
    - name: court_room
      dtype: string
    - name: case_involved
      dtype: string
    - name: case_description
      dtype: string
    - name: year
      dtype: int16
    - name: month
      dtype: int8
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_examples: 479334
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: court_sessions.parquet

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.

Personal Information Notice

This dataset contains names of judges presiding over court hearings. Judge names are public information published on official Ukrainian court websites (court.gov.ua) as part of mandatory judicial transparency requirements under Ukrainian law (Law of Ukraine "On the Judiciary and Status of Judges", Art. 11). No private personal data (addresses, phone numbers, etc.) is included.

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".