Vacancy of the judge in the Chamber of Civil Cases will be replaced by the judge of regional court Vigants

On January 25, the judge of the Administrative regional court Maris Vigants starts to execute duties of the judge in the Chamber of Civil Cases. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court assigned Maris Vigants temporarily replace the vacancy of the judge in the Chamber of Civil Cases in an order established by the Part 2 of Paragraph 79 of the Law “On Judicial Power”.
The Paragraph mentioned states that for the time of vacancy or temporary absence of the judge of the Chamber, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court can assign the Honoured Judge of the Supreme Court of the judge of regional court to replace him, if this persona has given written agreement or by the suggestion of Judicial Qualification Committee.
According to the decision of Saeima, the number of attested judges in the Supreme Court is 53, but at present there work only 45 judges in the Supreme Court. Taking into account the significant accumulation of civil cases, it is necessary to increase number of judges in Chamber of Civil cases immediately. 13 judges are intended to work in the Chamber of Civil Cases, but up to now there have worked only 11.

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