It is the best that may be given by Latvian jurisprudence – said Janis Rozenfelds, professor, the Head of the Chair of Civil Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia and the Chair of the Council of the Faculty of Law, at the opening of the second part of comments to the Civil Procedure Law on the 19th of September, evaluating work performed by group of authors of the book.

However, Peteris Dzalbe, the deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, while greeting group of authors on thorough work performed meritoriously, pointed out significant importance of these comments in improvement of quality of court rulings. Ilma Cepane, the Head of the Legal Affairs Committee of the Saeima (the Parliament) admitted that being aware of great load of judges, she admires authors, whe were able to find time for this additional work.

The second part of comments to Civil Procedure Law encompassing chapters 29-60.1 of the Law is published by public joint-stock company "Tiesu namu agentura". The author and scientific editor of comments is Kalvis Torgans, the professor, Dr.habil.iur., real member of the LAS, the senator of the Supreme Court, other authors are practitioners in field of law: senators and judges of the Supreme Court Gunars Aigars, Zigmants Gencs, Valerijans Jonikans, Edite Vernusa, Aldis Lavins, Zane Petersone, Gunvaldis Davidovics, assistant to senator, and professionals in field of insolvency proceedings - Helmuts Jauja and Gatis Flinters, and Martins Osis, doctoral student in the University of Latvia.

Signe Terihova, legal editor of comments, expressed her satisfaction with interesting discussions initiated, when preparing the book, and valuable results formed. At the same time, she drew attention to insufficient political understanding and material support of the state to publishing of legal literature.  S.Terihova linked her thought with statement of Committee on Constitutional Law published on Monday about constitutional basis of Latvia, essence of the Satversme (the Constitution) and inviolability of this essence. High principle of national state binds the state to protect and strengthen Latvian identity including Latvian science, inter alia, Latvian science of law. Neither development of Latvian law, nor implementation of principles of judicial state is possible without development of science of law. Moreover, development of science of law is not imaginable without opportunities of permanent publishing of opinions and studies, without publishing legal literature in Latvian language and its extended availability. “If it seems self-evident in development of other branches of Latvian culture and science to demand for investments from state budget, inter alia, grounding it on protection on interests of national state and Latvian nation, then development of science of law may not be grounded (only and exclusively) on market economy principles. It is in state’s interests – in interests of protection of Satversme’s essence”, S.Terihova stressed.

 

Information prepared by

Rasma Zvejniece, the Head of the Division of Communication of the Supreme Court

E-mail: rasma.zvejniece@at.gov.lv, telephone: 67020396, 28652211