About notable events
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23th of January, 2008
“Significant and valuable addition not only to the Bar, but to the judiciary in whole”, said the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court after accepting the oath of twenty four new attorneys on January 23.
The new attorneys swore to be loyal to Latvia, to follow the laws of the country honestly and with confidence, to show respect to the courts and the state power, not to speak or write anything in the course of their activities that might cause harm to the country, society, family and morals, to fulfill honestly the duties of an attorney, to protect the interests of the authorizing parties or individuals the cases of which they work on, being aware that they bear responsibility for their activities under the law. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court wished them to remember the words of the oath as a prayer in their further activities because they express the most essential regarding the conduct of attorneys as their actions have considerable impact not only on the individual’s interests, but on the authority of the judicial power, as well. A. Guļāns expressed hope that the new attorneys will work with respect to the Satversme (Constitution), the court, the client and themselves.
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22th of January, 2008
There are no problems in reviewing corruption cases in courts, there are probably problems to detect offence. A small number of cases come to the courts, cases of separate categories, responsibility for which in stipulated by the Criminal Law, for example, trading influence, have not been heard in the practice of the Supreme Court at all. This was one of conclusions drawn by the experts of the Anticorruption Interstate Group of the Council of Europe (GRECO – Groupe d’Etats contre la corruption) during the discussions with the judges of the Supreme Court.
The delegation of GRECO experts visit Latvia on January 21 – 25 to learn how the requirements of the Council of Europe are followed in prevention of corruptive violations of law. The representative of the GRECO Secretariat Tania Van Dijk and experts Alastair Brovn and Jaan Ginter from the Prosecutor’s Office of Scotland and the Tartu University, Faculty of Law, discussed the practice of the Supreme Court in reviewing corruption cases with the Senator Pēteris Dzalbe of the Department of Criminal Cases of the Senate and the Chairman of the Chamber of Criminal Cases Ivars Bičkovičs.
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10th of January, 2008
The collection of rulings of the Department of Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court Senate which was published late last year contains 101 rulings adopted by the Department in 2006. The Collection is significant because for the first time the practice of application of the new Criminal Procedure is analyzed. Cognitions given in the published rulings will help in the practical work both lawyers and other interested persons.
The year of 2006 in reviewing criminal cases is significant because the new Criminal Procedure Law was applied in full. The practice of application of this law has shown both its shortcomings and drawbacks and the positive side related to fair regulation of criminal-justice relations trying to ensure efficient application of the standards of the Criminal Law.
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4th of January, 2008
Increasing of the role of the UNO International Court in protection of children’s rights – this was the principal theme of the 8th Conference of Chief Justices of Supreme Courts of the World which took place in December 2007 in Laknov, India. Chairman of the Chamber of Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court Ivars Bičkovičs participated in the Conference as the authorized representative of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Latvia.
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3th of January, 2008
During the period before Christmas and New Year, the charity campaign to collect donations for children whose life has not been so easy has become a good tradition in the Supreme Court. At the end of 2007, judges and employees of the court collected 787 lats, and the money has been sent to the Cēsu region Raiskuma sanatorium boarding elementary school.
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2th of January, 2008
The title of the Man of the Year of the Supreme Court and the Themis Prize was conferred to the Senator Roberts Guntis Namatēvs of the Department of Civil Cases. It is the highest attestation of the court acknowledgement to a person who, as it is said in the Regulations, “we respect and are proud of”. The winner of this acknowledgement is determined at the end of the year by secret ballot of the judges and employees of the Supreme Court in two turns.
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27th of December, 2007
The issue of the agenda of the Plenary Session of the Supreme Court of December 27 was confirmation of Anita Poļakova and Andrejs Lepse in a concrete structural unit of the Supreme Court. The joint session of judges unanimously confirmed both candidates to the positions in the Chamber of Criminal Cases.
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27th of December, 2007
In the Plenary Session of the Supreme Court on December 27, by unanimous voting Veronika Krūmiņa was elected to the position of the Chairman of the Department of Administrative Cases. V. Krūmiņa fulfilled the duties of the chief of the Department already since September 17, when the previous Chairman of the Department Valerijans Jonikāns was elected to the position of the Chairman of the Department of Civil Cases.
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20th of December, 2007
On Thursday, December 27, at 9.30, senators and judges of the Supreme Court will gather at the Plenary Session to elect the Chairman of the Department of Administrative Cases.
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19th of December, 2007
On December 19, 2007, the Plenary Session of the Supreme Court discussed the report of the work group formed on September 17, on breach of ethical standards in actions of the Supreme Court judges expressed after the published phone calls of judges and attorneys.
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