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Information Systems of Lithuanian Courts (LITEKO)

Lietuvos teismų informacinė sistema

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Administrative data source
Country: Lithuania
Topics:
Violence, Justice
Types of GBV:
Rape, Sexual Assault (excl. rape), Sexual Harassment, Stalking
The data was collected in 2013 and may not accurately represent the present situation. The examples from the United Kingdom were published before the country's withdrawal from the European Union on 31 January 2020.

Types of GBV

  • Intimate Partner Violence
  • Rape
  • Sexual Assault (excl. rape)
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Stalking

This database registers any cases that are solved in the court under Criminal Code, Administrative Offences Code and Civil Code

Purpose of data collection

  • Monitoring
  • Professional indemnity
  • Accountability
Other purpose: 

Administrative support to Court.

Data available on

Victim

Background information

  • Age
  • Sex
  • Nationality
  • ID
  • Name
  • Ethnicity
  • Marital status
  • Dependants
Other: 

Employment, address, profession, education

Relationship with perpetrator

No

Repeatedly suffering from GBV

No

Characteristics

Storage System

  • In paper form
  • Electronically (single files)
  • Electronically (database)
Other: 

Each court has its own regulations on collecting data about a case. The case itself is in paper file, but data on the incident, participants of the process and court decision appear in electronic files which constitute the Lithuanian Court Information System (LITEKO) database.

Frequency of updating

Ongoing

Quality assurance process

The Council of Courts approved the regulations in 2006 (Order No. 13P-424, January 6, 2006) on procedures to register the cases in the LITEKO system. It is required to register the received by a court procedural documents, register number in the system, launching a court case, registration of persons participating in the process, incidences of the investigated process, registration of the documents of the process, verdicts of the process, timing of investigation in the court, checked and added information to the process, methods of search. The courts register the materials and National court administration controls and supervises the process and can identify the persons who entered data. Training for court employees responsible for registering data are periodically organized by the National court administration.

Comparability

  • Geographical
  • Over time
  • None

Timeliness

Immediately

Additional information: 

It is immediately recorded when the court process start.

Current developments

The National Court Administration participates in the EU-support project E-Proceeding (E-byla) which aims at uniting efforts of different institutions that are involved in criminal process and provide shared data base on criminal proceeding. Recently the National Court Administration launched the project to provide electronically data from LITEKO to the Register of Suspected, Offended and Convicted. Previously this information was transferred in paper files. This will allow to share data about convicted not only in Lithuania but also in the EU. The pilot works of uniting both databases will be finalised in May 2013.

Relation with third parties

Reported to third parties
Yes
Name of organisation: 
Prosecutor's Offices, attorneys
Used by third parties: 
No

Reporter

  • Victim
  • Witness
  • Offender
Other: 

Usually the prosecutor submits the application to the court about the case.

Website

Link to website

Metadata

Organisation: 
National Court Administration
Sector:
Justice
Geographical area: 
National