Article 176. Adoption of the judgment

At consideration of the case on the merits, the court shall adopt the judgment.

The judgment of the court shall be adopted in the name of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

The judgment shall be adopted by the judges participating in the court session in the conditions which ensure the observance of the secrecy of conference of the judges.

Only the judges making the composition of the court, which is considering the case, may be present in the room where the judges are to adopt the judgment. Access to this room of other persons, as well as other ways of communicating with persons who are not part of the court composition is prohibited.

The judges are not entitled to communicate to anybody the data about the contents of the discussion when adopting the judgment, about the positions of individual judges making the composition of the court, and otherwise disclose the secrecy of conference of the judges.

The judgment of the court shall be lawful and substantiated. It shall only be based on the evidence examined at the court session.