Chronological order

07.07.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-343/2023 Consequences of the partial withdrawal of the application for compensation; Recording of a telephone conversation with a smartphone as evidence

06.07.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-71/2023 The victim’s objections to the amount of compensation for harm as an obstacle to approve the concluded agreement on the admission of guilt and the sentence

05.07.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-227/2023 Impact of a settlement on the amount of punishment to be determined; Right of a defence counsel to submit objections against a trial of a case in written procedure in the appellate instance court

21.06.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-14/2023 Evaluation of the legality of the operational wiretapping to be carried out in a special manner; Evaluation of the legality of obtaining voice samples

13.06.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-204/2023 Handling of the original of a document which is obtained from a civil case for an expert examination in criminal proceedings

31.05.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-27/2023 Application of the mandatory additional punishment provided for in the sanction of Paragraph one of Section 250 of the Criminal Law to the joint participant who does not have the characteristics of a special subject

26.05.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-177/2023 Finding of the mitigating circumstance – the offender has facilitated the disclosure of a crime of another person

17.05.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-40/2023 Prosecution of a person for offence for which disciplinary punishment has been imposed to him/her

17.05.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-145/2023 Infringement of the principle of the presumption of innocence

28.04.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-121/2023 Movement of a psychotropic substance across the state border of the Republic of Latvia in a postal item; Unauthorised acquisition and storage of psychotropic substance for the purpose of disposal

19.04.2023. Decision of the judge of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-292/2023 The state of health of the accused as a justified reason for not appearing at the court hearing

13.04.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-33/2023 Subjective side of the criminal offence provided for in Section 114 (Destruction and damaging of special areas of protection) of the Criminal Law

06.04.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-23/2023 Using official position in bad faith as a mean of stealing another’s property

05.04.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-60/2023

04.04.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-94/2023 Recidivism of criminal offences; Addition of additional punishments – deprivation of the driver’s licence – after several judgments

23.03.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-25/2023 Legal presumption of a fact relating to copyright infringement; Balancing of the releasing of an accused from criminal liability, when the violation of the right to completion of the criminal proceedings within a reasonable time have been find, with the public interests

22.03.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-24/2023 Reinforcement of a punishment in the appellate instance court when reviewing a case de novo, if the cassation instance court has revoked a ruling of the appellate instance court due to violation of Section 566 of the Criminal Procedure Law; Ensuring of the right to a fair trial when deciding a request of a person involved in criminal proceedings to determine an expert-examination

03.03.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-5/2023 Partial admission of guilt and repentance is not a mitigating circumstance within the meaning of Paragraph two of Section 47 of the Criminal Law

28.02.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-41/2023 Evaluation of rule of law of special investigative experiment; Evaluation of provocation

21.02.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-6/2023 Examination of a case in a written procedure in accordance with Paragraph 1 Section 12 of the Law on management of the spread of COVID-19 infection; Assessment of the admissibility of written procedure in a court trying a case on the merits; Consent of the accused not to conduct a verification of evidence

06.02.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-36/2023 Bad faith in evasion of tax payments in the form of failure to act

01.02.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-1/2023 Laundering of savings from declaring a fictitious transaction; Subjective side of a criminal offence provided for in Section 195 of the Criminal Law; Evasion of value added tax where an undertaking carrying out a real economic activity has entered into fictitious transactions and has indicated in value added tax returns the deductible amounts in respect of those transactions; Fictitious value added tax return as the subject of the offence provided for in Section 275 of the Criminal Law

31.01.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-J-20/2023 Examination of the abridged judgment in accordance with Chapter 63 of the Criminal Procedure Law; Illegal alcoholic beverages as the object of excise tax and obligation to compensate the damage caused to the state by the criminal offence

31.01.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-86/2023 Application of a basic punishment – probationary supervision

31.01.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-116/2023 Right of a court to release a person from criminal liability when a minor misdemeanour has been committed; Theft of an animal

31.01.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-J-166/2023 Determination of a final punishment in accordance with Paragraph 5 Section 50 of the Criminal Law

26.01.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-37/2023 Imposition of a punishment – deprivation of liberty – to a person with severe level functioning limitations; Application of community service to the person with a disability

19.01.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-12/2023 Trial of a criminal case without the participation of an accused if the accusation is amended; Abetment of the evasion of tax payments and payments equivalent thereto

19.01.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-65/2023 Application of Clause 6 of Transitive Provisions of the Law of 13th December 2012 „Amendments to the Criminal Law”

13.01.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-125/2023 Movement of a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the state border of the Republic of Latvia via courier

10.01.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-3/2023 Triggering of national hatred or enmity; The opinion of the Ombudsman as a proof

10.01.2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-34/2023 Accepting of a bribe following the request thereof, by a group of persons according to a prior agreement

2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-[A]/2023 Assessment of the request made by the accused in the appellate complaint

2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-[B]/2023 Misappropriation in a large scale as a continuous criminal offence

2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-[C]/2023 Change of the type of adjudication of a case from oral to written procedure during trial as a violation of the right to a fair trial

2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-[D]/2023 Criminal offence provided for in Section 85 (Espionage) of the Criminal Law (in the wording of the Law until 10 May 2016); Owner of property infringed during criminal proceedings; Obligation to assess a possible violation of the rights to the completion of criminal proceedings within a reasonable time; Prohibition on the defence’s access to materials of operational activities which are not appended to the criminal case and are related to the subject of evidence

2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-[E]/2023 Delimitation of extortion from robbery

2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-[F]/2023 The importance of dealing with property in the qualification of misappropriation; Misappropriation of the property of an insolvent legal person by the administrator of insolvency proceedings

2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-[G]/2023 Cassation complaint of the defence counsel; The content of the descriptive and reasoned part of the judgment; Laundering of the proceeds from crime

2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-[I]/2023 Right of the sentenced person’s spouse to challenge the validity of the recovery if immovable property acquired during the marriage and entered in the land register in the name of the convicted person is the subject of the confiscation of property

2023. Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-[H]/2023 Assessment of a nature of the criminal offence when determining the punishment for espionage