2012
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28th of December, 2012
The highest recognition of the Supreme Court – title of the Person of the Year and Themis Award in 2012 was given to Zigmants Gencs, the Chair of the Department of Civil Cases of the Senate.
Colleagues expressed their recognition to Zigmants Gencs for life-long contribution to development of court system – he has been the judge of the Supreme Court for 34 years, being the senator of the Department of Civil Cases of the Senate since the Senate was formed in 1996, and since 2010 he has been the Chair of the department.
Zigmants Gencs is one of rare judges, who find time and desire to write books beside routine work. In 2012, comments of Zigmants Gencs to Civil Law in succession were published, and he is co-author of comments to Civil Procedure Law also published in 2012.
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21th of December, 2012
The Plenary Session of the Supreme Court on the 21st of December re-elected the senator Veronika Krumina for the post of the Chair of the Department of Administrative Cases of the Senate. Pursuant to the law “On Judicial Power”, Chairs of department of the Senate and court chambers of the Supreme Court are elected by general meeting of judges for the term of five years.
When reporting on work that had been done in previous term of office of five years, Veronika Krumina pointed out that work load and intensity of senators of the Department of Administrative Cases of the Senate has increased significantly: both number of cases received and heard increased, but the Department of Administrative Cases was able to decrease accumulation of cases. Number of senators in the Department has increased from six to nine during five years. Professional requirements for assistants to senators are kept high, and it has been proved by the fact that three ex-assistants to senators of the Department of Administrative Cases became judges during last five years.
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19th of December, 2012
In historically significant day – on the 94th anniversary of the Senate, which is on the 19th of December, last group of students of this year from the University of Latvia visited the Supreme Court, getting acquainted with operation of court system and the Supreme Court and visiting historical Palace of Justice. After excursion of this day students admitted that it was the most valuable day of the term, as they were given an opportunity to meet Ivars Bickovics, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, to see court museum and even could see the proclamation of a ruling in the Chamber of Criminal Cases.
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18th of December, 2012
On Tuesday, the 18th of December, Reinhold Geimer, professor of the Faculty of Law of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, met senators of the Department of Civil Cases of the Senate and judges of the Chamber of Civil Cases of the Supreme Court.
Professor shared his experience in working with notarial acts in Germany. In many places in Europe, inter alia, in Germany, contracts created as a notarial act, have power of executive document and these are of equal value to court rulings.
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13th of December, 2012
On the 13th of December, Ivars Bickovics, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, accepted an oath of thirty-one advocates admitted to the Latvian Council of Sworn Advocates.
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court wished to new advocates to remember always that despite the fact that an advocate is free in his/her profession, still he is a part of joint court system, and understanding and attitude towards work of courts has been formed also from his/her work. “Of course, a judge, an advocate, a prosecutor and a bailiff executes his/her own functions, but fair result of the case is formed from our joint work”, said I.Bickovics.
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12th of December, 2012
Real estate is considered to be joint property of both spouses if property rights to it were acquired during time of marriage and when both spouses had a joint household, as there is grounds to believe that finance necessary for acquiring property were used from joint family budget made up of contribution of both spouses according to their present situation, when one spouse was bringing children up and doing housework, and another spouse was working wage labour.
This is one of basic conclusions in case-law summary performed by the Supreme Court in cases about division of joint property of spouses.
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11th of December, 2012
The book that has become a bibliographical rarity before its opening already – so it happened with the collection of rulings of the Senate of 2011.
Taking into account information provided by former publisher about editions sold, public capital company “Latvijas Vestnesis”, which, cooperating with the Supreme Court, has published the collection of rulings of the Senate for the first time, had been planning edition cautiously. However, demand turned out to be great all at once, and the whole edition was sold during the first week.
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10th of December, 2012
The Council of Justice supports valid prohibition established in the law “On Judicial Power” to joint the post of a judge with membership in parties and other political organisations.
The Council of Justice adopted such decision being asked by the Saeima (the Parliament) to express its opinion as person invited in the case about correspondence of Paragraph Three Section 86 of the law “On Judicial Power” to Article 102 of Satversme (the Constitution). Regulation mentioned above states that the office of a judge may not be combined with membership in a party or other political organisations.
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10th of December, 2012
Visits of students to the Supreme Court have become a tradition; however, usually these are students from programmes of law. On the 10th of December, the Supreme Court was visited by 3rd grade students of explorative journalism studies of Communication Programme of the University of Latvia.
Veronika Krumina, the Chair of the Department of Administrative Cases of the Senate told students about court and legal system of Latvia, work of the Supreme Court, as well as analysed administrative cases related to availability of information in public and municipal institutions.
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8th of December, 2012
The Supreme Court performed study on case-law in adjudicating claims on rights to charge and communication and provisions for a child.
In this study, case-law in cases about establishment of separate charge, deprivation of rights to charge, establishment or deprivation of rights to communication, establishment of child’s domicile, establishment of paternity and issues related to child’s provisions, is analysed.
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