Experienced prosecutors of Specialised Prosecutor’s Office of Organised Crimes and other branches Aris Bocs and Ivars Krauze change the field of professional activity and on February 4 they gave a vow of sworn advocate. The Deputy Head of Police Department of Jurmala city, the Head of the Department of Investigation of Criminal Police Evita Spalvena also joined community of advocates; she also gave a vow to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Ivars Bickovics stresses that this is the case, when community of advocates has been filled with experienced and professional lawyers. “Maybe it will not be easy to come to an opposite side of trenches. But all legal professions have one basic interest – the strengthening of rule of law in the state”, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court told to admitted advocates after accepting the vow. I. Bickovics stressed that professional advocate plays an important role in a fair result of litigation, so he wished new advocates to step into new profession fast and to be just as successful and marketable advocates, as they were in their previous legal profession.

In order to become a sworn advocate, a person who has an appropriate education and work experience, passes the advocate’s exam. If the Board of Sworn Advocates hasn’t received information that there are obstructions for admitting the new candidate, stated in the Law on Advocacy, it admits a candidate in the community of sworn advocates and, according to Paragraph 46 of the Law on Advocacy, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court accepts the vow of new advocates.

 

 

 

 


Information prepared by

Head of the Division of Communications of the Supreme Court Rasma Zvejniece

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