Project “The role of judge assistants in effective work organization of the Supreme Court”

The Supreme Court of Latvia carries out the project “The role of judge assistants in effective work organization of the Supreme Court” in 2019-2020. The project prepared by the Administration of the Supreme Court of Latvia was supported by the Nordic and Baltic Mobility Programme for Public Administration.

The aim of the project

The aim of the project is to provide mutual experience exchange between judge assistants from the Supreme Courts of Latvia and Nordic countries, raise qualification in the following areas:

• innovative ways how judge assistants can support judges,
• role of judge assistants in ensuring quality of judgements,
• competence of judge assistants, different techniques of drafting judgements,
• promoting public confidence in courts,
• best practice exchange in effective court case handling at Supreme Courts,
• promoting cooperation between Supreme Courts of Nordic countries and Latvia.

Activities

During the project the following experience exchange visits took place

• at the Supreme Court of Iceland, October 2019,
• at the Supreme Court of Norway, October 2019,
• at the Supreme Court of Finland, November 2019,
• at the Supreme Court of Sweden, February 2020.

Project partners

• Project is managed by the Supreme Court of Latvia
• Participants: Supreme Court of Iceland, Supreme Court of Norway, Supreme Court of Finland, Supreme Administrative Court of Finland, Supreme Court of Sweden, Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden

More about project activities

Judge assistants gain experience in supreme courts of Sweden (24.02.2020) 
Judge assistants gain experience in the Supreme Court of Finland (14.11.2019) 
Judge assistants gain experience in the Supreme Court of Norway (08.11.2019) 
Court employees gain experience in the Supreme Court of Iceland (17.10.2019) 
Supreme Court of Latvia and supreme courts of Nordic countries cooperate in making work of judge assistants more efficient (07.10.2019)