Slovenian Courts have Gone Online

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In the last few years, the Slovenian courts have made real progress in digitalising public registries.

Court Register

The AJPES portal hosts the Slovenian Court Register, which is part of a wider information database, the Business Register, which is also maintained by AJPES. The electronic Court Register contains data on companies and other legal entities which have to be registered in the Court Register (e.g. identification data, data on owners, representatives, share capital, statutory changes), as well as some of the most important corporate deeds of the company (e.g. statues, Articles of Association, minutes of meetings of corporate bodies, etc.). It is possible to obtain not only current and historic court registry excerpts, but also to search through databases by using specific criteria. Only deeds which contain personal data and are thus not freely accessible are exempted from publication.

The data on the respective portal is updated daily. In most cases, such publication creates an irrefutable presumption that the data is known to everyone. Thus, it is not only beneficial for companies, lawyers and other persons involved in business transactions with Slovenian legal entities to use the AJPES portal, but even necessary, as failure to do so may result in a loss of rights, damages or have other inconvenient consequences.

Entries into the Court Register are now published exclusively on the AJPES website and no longer in the Official Gazette.

Insolvency proceedings

As of 1 January 2008 the AJPES website has been publishing information pertaining to insolvency proceedings (liquidation, bankruptcy, compulsory settlement) which are conducted by insolvency courts. These publications include:

information on the initiation of such proceedings; publication of the basic list of tested claims; most decisions issued by the court during the proceedings; notice of the fixing of a hearing and other notices or calls for a vote; minutes of court hearings; minutes of sessions of the creditors' committee; reports of administrators; certain written submissions of the parties of proceedings and public auctions; and invitations to tender for a public auction on a bankrupt estate (only in bankruptcy proceedings). It is therefore imperative for creditors to regularly check...