Supreme Court staff: rules on AI
By order no. 117 of 8 December 2025 the head of the Apparatus of Ukraine's Supreme Court approved a regulation on the use of AI by staff: no public AI for restricted information, and lists of banned and permitted tasks.
Why it matters
Ukraine has a written rule for a court's staff on what may be given to AI and what may not, including the secrecy of a judgment's deliberation. An editorial assessment: it is an internal act of one court's apparatus, not a norm for courts in general.
What the regulation says (five pages). General terms: AI is an auxiliary tool only, cannot replace the employee's professional work and must not affect the independence of judges; it draws on article 16 of the Code of Judicial Ethics, the guidance of the Ministry of Digital Transformation, the civil-service agency and the Higher School of Public Administration (March 2025), the Ministry of Justice recommendations (July 2025), the CEPEJ European Ethical Charter (2018), CCJE opinion no. 26 (2023) and EU Regulation 2024/1689. Principles: protection of human rights; responsibility; confidentiality; integrity and reliability; ethics and non-discrimination. Banned uses of AI: processing documents that hold the secrecy of a judgment's deliberation or closed-hearing information; analysing and monitoring employees' behaviour; trying to predict individual judges' decisions; automatically drafting decisions and procedural documents; processing case materials that contain personal data. Permitted, among others: summarising case law, analysing decisions for systemic causes of disputes, filling the Database of Legal Positions, analytical reports, chatbots for visitors, translation. Restricted information may be handled only in AI systems approved by the head of the Apparatus. Staff are trained periodically; the Apparatus may start monitoring and audit and prepares an open report; the regulation is open to consultation. What the record does not claim. The date the file was posted on the site is unknown. It does not say how many staff were trained or how many systems approved. The outside report that led here presented a 19 February 2026 training deck as the Court "formalising" restrictions; the slides only quote the regulation, which is dated December 2025. Other slides in the deck (for example on a national LLM built on Google Gemma 3) were not checked and are not entered.