The Supreme Court expressed readiness to participate in mediation pilot-project “Popularization and Implementation of Mediation in Latvian Court System”, and first duty of mediators in the court is expected on the 26th of April. The Department of Administrative Cases of the Senate has already sent the first call to the participants of cases to use mediation, and the Chamber of Civil Cases supported this project.

If it would be possible to make a conclusion according to case file materials that mediation may be applied to dispute existing between participants of proceedings, then the court would send letters to parties with a call to think about opportunity to use mediation to achieve solution of dispute that would acceptable for all parties.

On the 26th of April from 9.30 until 14.00 o’clock mediator Viktorija Danilova will be on duty in the Supreme Court and in individual conversations she will inform participants of cases on opportunities to use mediation and will advise if mediation proceedings are suitable for concrete dispute.

Informative consultations given by mediator will be available not only to those participants of proceedings who received summons letters from court but also to other coteries. Both persons who submitted claim and those who think about solving the dispute in court proceedings are invited to mediation consultations. Mediation is possible also in cases, when proceedings have already been initiated, as it may be applied in all stages of litigation, just as settlement.

To discuss participation of the Supreme Court in mediation pilot-project, judges and court employees met project manager Laima Arija Zelmene, but Zane Petersone, the judge of the Chamber of Civil Cases, read extended lecture on mediation and its role in relation to court’s and judges’ routine to judges and employees of the Supreme Court on the 20th of April.

 

 

Information prepared by

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

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