The 5th issue of “The Bulletin of the Supreme Court” is dedicated to international conference “Role of National Supreme Courts in Protection of Human Rights” which was organised by the Supreme Court in cooperation with Riga Graduate School of Law and which was the first international conference held in Latvia in which dialogue among the Supreme Court, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and the Constitutional Court was formed.  

Conference reports are published in bulletin, including opinion of Ineta Ziemele and Danute Jociene, judges of the ECHR, on dialogue and cooperation between courts in context of concrete cases, analysis of dialogue between two European courts – the Court of Justice of the European Union and the ECHR, performed by Peter Gjortler, the associated professor of Riga Graduate School of Law, reports of representatives of Supreme Courts of Lithuania, Estonia and Poland touching systemic and structural problems in aspect of human rights, as well as opinion of Kalvis Torgans, Peteris Dzalbe and Dace Mita, senators of the Supreme Court, on topical issues of human rights and report of Gunars Kutris, the Chairman of the Constitutional Court, about dialogue between the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court as means of protection of human rights.  

Decisions of the Board of Justice in issues important for court system are also published in bulletin. However, the most important one is new procedure of evaluation of professional operation of judges which will come into effect in January, 2013.

As usually, insight into topical issues of case-law is provided in bulletin. The Department of Administrative cases of the Senate prepared report on applications submitted to the Constitutional Court by administrative courts, and Veronika Krumina, the Chairwoman of the Department published her comments to this report. The Department of Criminal Cases of the Senate made research on case-law in determination of compulsory measures of medical nature, as senator Anita Nusberga informs about it in bulletin. Publication performed by senator Aldis Lavins about topical verdict of the Department of Civil Cases of the Senate reviews rights of biological father to litigate paternity admitted by another person voluntarily. Conclusions of the Senate in rulings, in which the Senate changed case-law, are also published in bulletin.

Conclusions and experience gained by judges of the Supreme Court during their business trips are novelties of this issue.

At present, the 5th issue of “The Bulletin of the Supreme Court” is available in electronic form on the home page of the Supreme Court www.at.gov.lv in chapter “About the Supreme Court”, but it will be printed until the end of the month. This issue will also be sent to all Latvian courts, other institutions related to judicial system, and libraries and higher educational institutions.

 

 

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