HACC Decided Turns 2: How Systematic Monitoring Helps Us See Justice in Motion

Today, September 5, we mark two years of the HACC Decided platform. Over this time, the body of data we’ve gathered has allowed us not only to build a convenient resource on individual cases but also to analyze the anti-corruption court’s practice and trends systematically. Behind this is a team of specialists steeped in anti-corruption justice every day — turning complex legal material into information the public can understand.

Every case summary on the platform is the product of work by TI Ukraine lawyers, who attend HACC hearings or watch their livestreams to be the first to capture the key moments. This is not just automated data collection but expert work: the team tracks a case from the first notice of suspicion to the final verdict, brings together court decisions, news, and analysis, and presents it all in a format that a journalist and an ordinary citizen alike can understand.

Beyond the case summaries, TI Ukraine’s experts regularly prepare analytical pieces on proceedings involving MPs, oligarchs, and top-ranking officials — breaking down the legal classification, explaining why a case is moving the way it is, and pointing out what deserves attention.

The platform already features:

• over 132,000 documents — HACC rulings, decisions, and verdicts, grouped by criminal proceeding number;
• over 550 case summaries, which we continually update and expand with new ones;
• over 650 timely news items written by professional practicing lawyers who understand the process inside out and, in the past year alone, have attended more than a thousand court hearings;
• over 60 analytical pieces, both on individual high-profile cases and on trends in anti-corruption justice more broadly;
• nearly 4,400 livestreams of court hearings.

“What makes HACC Decided unique is not just the volume of information gathered, but above all its systematic approach. We have followed the HACC’s work from the very start of its operation, accumulating data that lets us analyze judicial practice over time. This allows us to look at the HACC’s work not through isolated rulings or high-profile cases, but to see the patterns, trends, and the overall picture of how anti-corruption justice is developing,” says Oksana Kopiichuk, Legal Advisor at Transparency International Ukraine and coordinator of HACC Decided.

The platform makes one thing clear: the fight against corruption does not end with searches and notices of suspicion — that is rather the beginning, and corruption itself does not go unpunished. However complex and drawn-out investigations and trials may be, the results show that the inevitability of punishment for these crimes is a reality.

TI Ukraine continues to develop the HACC Decided platform so as to keep providing high-quality expert monitoring of the work of Ukraine’s High Anti-Corruption Court, and to strengthen transparency and accountability in how it operates.