At the present stage there is a situation where the reform of the network of local general courts requires the simultaneous availability of several of the stated reasons: change of the judicial system defined by the Law, necessity of optimization of the state budget expenditures, expected change of the administrative-territorial structure, connected with the processes of decentralization, etc. In carrying out the reform, all of the above grounds for the formation and liquidation of the courts should be applied in unity and interconnection, complementing each other. Crucial to this is the availability of justice, which should prevent the mechanical liquidation of courts and the reduction of the size of local general courts, which is the most predicted negative outcome of the reform. The process of updating the network of local general courts should take place not in isolation but in a single context with the implementation of administrative-territorial reform in Ukraine, while simultaneously reforming the network of related institutions: prosecutors, advocates, judicial bodies.