Chronological order

10.07.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-567/2025 The right of the apartment owner to information on issues related to the management task. Separation of the obligation to provide information of the manager and utility service providers; The right of the apartment owner to information about the formation of the positions of the management work estimate prepared by the manager for the next calendar year

09.07.2025. Assignment Hearing Decision of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-715/2025 Equal requirements for the release of a citizen of the Republic of Latvia and a foreigner from paying security deposit

27.06.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-300/2025 Employment of a person in two academic positions; Determination of the content of the employment relationship if an employee performs the duties of several positions for one employer; Requirement to recognize the right to be employed in an academic position for an indefinite period; Use of consecutive, fixed-term employment contracts for an academic position

19.06.2025. Decision on Ancillary Complaint of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-433/2025 Recovery of court costs if a claim is brought against a bailiff who, after taking over the enforcement cases of a bailiff who has left office, has paid the money due to the claimant after the claim was brought because of objective circumstances independent of his will after the claim was brought

19.06.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-44/2025 Determination of liability for damages in a case of multiple defendants

19.06.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-444/2025 Legal qualification of factual circumstances when assessing evidence of an oral fiduciary transaction

10.06.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-42/2025 The right of the insured whose civil liability is insured in a travel insurance contract to demand payment of insurance benefit; Identifying the applicable law if the insured person requests from the civil liability insurer to recover insurance benefit due to losses, the claim for compensation of which on the basis of the law, by exercising subrogation right has been taken over from the victim by a person domiciled in another Member State of the European Union; Comparison of compensation for moral damage with the compensation for pain and suffering known in the European legal area; Assessing the unfair character of limitation of liability set in a travel insurance contract concluded with a consumer, which provides for non-compensation of moral damage within the framework of civil liability insurance

22.05.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-113/2025 Claim for recovery of termination compensation provided for in the management agreement of a commercial company, if a board member has been removed from their position due to loss of confidence of the shareholders; The right of a member of the board of a commercial company to annual paid leave; The right of a member of the board of a commercial company to receive compensation for unused leave; A member of the board of a commercial company as an employee within the meaning of Article 107 of the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia

20.05.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-192/2025 Calculation of time period of notice of termination by employer in the event of a prolonged and continuous breach of employment contract; Employer’s duty to indicate the workplace in a clear, comprehensible and timely manner where the employment contract contains a statement that the employee may be employed in different places

15.05.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-131/2025 Right of claim arising from a fiduciary transaction; Fiduciary transaction by which the fiduciary acquires property in the interest and at the expense of the fiduciant; Form of a fiduciary transaction

14.05.2025. Asignment Hearing Decision of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-405/2025 Legal effect of insolvency notation and its connection to forced mortgage; Forced mortgage guaranteeing tax debts

13.05.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-2/2025 Burden of proof of genuine use of a trade mark; Use of a trade mark in relation to part of the goods or services for which the trade mark is registered; Use of the trade mark in a form different from the registered trade mark; Separation of broadcasting rights from copyright; Duty of the court to respond in its judgment to the arguments of the parties to the case

08.05.2025. Asignment Hearing Decision of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-350/2025 Evidence to be assessed in order to decide on exempting a person from the payment of State fee for submission of a complaint in the event of prior exemption from State fee for submission of a complaint; Deciding on a submission for exempting from payment of State fee submitted by a legal person in liquidation

29.04.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-154/2025 Decision of the community of apartment owners to rule on certain matters at the general meeting of apartment owners; Assessment of procedural defects in taking the decisions of the community of apartment owners; Partial validity of the decisions the community of apartment owners

29.04.2025. Decision Staying of Court Proceedings of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-50/2025 Recording a contract (transaction) in the Land Register, or corroborating a right in the form of an entry; Consequences of corroborating a lease or rental contract in the Land Register

23.04.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-1/2025 Limitation period for a claim for the recognition of a transaction as invalid that meets the characteristics specified in Section 96, Paragraph one, Clause 2 of the Insolvency Law

23.04.2025. Assignment Hearing Decision of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-35/2025 Termination of the obligation to pay dividends by a share issuer

16.04.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-125/2025 Determination of the value of undivided parts of immovable property belonging to a joint owner for the benefit of the other joint owners; Transfer of the mortgage on undivided parts of immovable property in the event the mortgaged undivided parts are adjudged for the benefit of the other joint owners in return for compensation in money

15.04.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-39/2025 Duty of the Court to stay the proceedings in a case concerning the deletion of a notation corroborated in the Land Register of a servitude of right of way where the defendant has, in another case, made an application for the same notation to be substituted by an entry and proceedings have been initiated with regard to that claim of the defendant

11.04.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-23/2025 Right to reimbursement of court expenses of third persons without separate claims

02.04.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-143/2025 Binding nature of contracts concluded before the entry into force of the Residential Tenancy Law; Management expenses under the Law „On Residential Tenancy”; Payment for using an access road under the Law „On Residential Tenancy”

20.03.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-151/2025 Claims to be applied for to obtain eviction of a tenant through court proceedings due to late payment of rent

12.03.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-24/2025 Apartment owner's liability for the difference in water consumption in case of omission of monitoring meter readings

05.03.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-324/2025 Commencement of the prescriptive period for the claim provided for in Section 1927 of the Civil Law, if the object of the gift (immovable property) has been alienated to the donee before the inability of the donor to pay to his or her creditor such debt that the donor had at the time of the donation

04.03.2025. Assignment Hearing Decision of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-292/2025 Claim aimed at resolving a collective dispute regarding interests which is not subject to review by a court

04.03.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-4/2025 Obligation to determine the final settlement of the dispute in the court judgment, so that disputes between litigants regarding the subject-matter of the lease of land are not transferred to the stage of enforcement of the judgment

18.02.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-3/2025 The concept of a defect in an alienated item and the detection of a defect; The concept of the average buyer and the yardstick for determining the expected characteristics of an item; Application of Section 1613 of the Civil Law and the concept of "ordinary attention"; Obligation of the buyer to inspect the goods and notify about defects if both parties to the contract are merchants; Bad faith of the alienor as a precondition for application of Section 1620 of the Civil Law; Return of the alienated property and the return of payment or other performance received for it as a consequence of the annulment of the contract, not as a basis for such annulment

05.02.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-5/2025 Right of the debtor to choose which part of the debt to pay off with his payment

04.02.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-128/2025 Reimbursement of legal expenses if an action brought by minority of shareholders on behalf of the company has been satisfied

29.01.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-12/2025 Limitation period for bringing an action under Section 1927 of the Civil Code

29.01.2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-32/2025 Objective and order of methods of interpreting a lawful transaction; Objective and subjective interpretation of a lawful transaction; Assessment of circumstances of the case when interpreting a lawful transaction; Complimentary interpretation of a contract in the event of a contractual gap

2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-[A]/2025 Divide between the parties of legal expenses for related claims in a divorce case; Fair division of legal expenses in a divorce case; Determining material status of the parties when dividing legal expenses in a divorce case; Decision of the court to recognise the case as complex when determining legal expenses

2025. Judgment of the Department of Civil Cases, case No SKC-[B]/2025 Consequences of exceeding the time-limit for contesting paternity presumption