Civil Law

2023

• Civil action – Latvian Senate’s case law and comments

2022

• Custody, access, maintenance support. Senate’s case law 2006 - September 2022

• Recognition claim. Interwar Senate case law and comments

• Insolvency and legal protection proceedings. Summary of Senate’s case law (2015–March 2022)

  • ​Case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union on the application of the Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings

• Division of the burden of proof in civil matters 2017–2021

• Case law findings in labour law cases (July 2012–2021)

2021

• Protection of Consumer Rights. Summary of case law of the Department of Civil Cases of the Supreme Court, August 2014 - 2021

• Civil protection of honour and dignity 2002–May 2021

2020

• Guarantee. Senate’s case-law findings 2005–2019

2019

• Forced land lease. Senate’s case-law findings 2009 – 2019

• Civil protection of honour and dignity 2000 – 2018 

2018

• Case-law in insolvency cases. 2015 – 2018 August

Case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Application of the Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings

• Case-law in application of land registry law 2006 till 2018 

• Case-law in cases arising from labour law for the period from July 2012 till 2017

2017

• Case-law in cases regarding consumer rights protection for the period from January 2014 till June 2017

2016

• Case-law in civil cases following from legal relationship related to residential property management

• Case-law in determining the extent of moral inury, if the injury resulted from unlawful or unreasonable action of investigation authority, prosecutor’s office or court

• Case-law in determining the extent of moral injury in relation to the violation of rights, personal injury or death of relative of the claimant 

2015

• Case-law on insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of motor vehicles covers

2014

• Case-law in cases on insolvency procedure of a legal entity

• Compensation of moral injury in civil cases

• Case-law in adoption cases

• Case-law in cases on contesting of transactions and recovery of losses from debtor’s representatives within insolvency proceedings

2013

• Case-law in application of demurrage

2012

• Case-law in division of joint property of spouses

• On case-law in resolving disputes about rights of charge (joint, separate, daily) and communication and sustenance for children

2011

• Joint property (Word) (pdf)

• Case-law in cases about individual labour disputes (Word) (pdf)

2010

• Case-law in forced execution of meeting liabilities on a non-actionable basis

2008

• Case-law in cases about delivery of writ of execution for forced execution of a ruling of a court of arbitration

• On application of the Section 1415 of the Civil Law

2007/2008

• On case-law in disputes about trademark

2007

• Application of legal standards in property relations between spouses

• On application of standards of family law

• Case-law generalization in disputes on succession

2006

• Case-law of appellate and cassation instance in review of ancillary complaints filed upon court decisions

• On case-law in cases arising from servitude right

2005

• Questions about application of standards of the Labour Law

• On application of laws, when resolving disputes related with execution of obligations of contracts on insurance of road vehicles and compulsory insurance of civil responsibility of owners of those, in courts

• Case-law in civil cases about approval of acts of real estate auctions

• On application of laws, when resolving disputes related with termination or amending of labour contract, in courts 

2004

• Case law in review of civil cases about determination of origin of a child, approval and cancellation of adoption, recovery of sustenance from parents for alimentation of the child, dissolution and nonbeing of marriage   

• Case-law of the Department of Civil Cases of the Senate, when applying the law “On Residential Tenancy”

• Case-law in cases about insolvency and bankruptcy of enterprises (business entities)

• Case-law in cases about civil protection of individual’s honour and dignity

2003

• Case-law of the Senate of the Supreme Court and regional courts in cases about decisions of officials of the SRS

• Case-law in issue on litigation costs

2002

• Case-law of the Senate of the Supreme Court in review of cases pursuant to the Section 485 of the Criminal Procedure Law