The disease overpowered Andrejs Lepse, the judge of the Chamber of Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court. On 31 July he passed away. 

Andrejs Lepse had worked as a judge for 33 years. He had been the Chair of Saldus district court; in 1985 he started to execute judicial duties in the Supreme Court. In 1995, when the Chamber of Criminal Cases was established in the Supreme Court, he was the first Chair thereof. In 1996, he was elected to the office of a judge of the Constitutional Court, returning to the Chamber of Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court in 2007.

Between 1992 and 1996 he was Vice-President of the restored Association of Latvian Judges, between 1996 and 1998 – the President of the Association, represented Latvia in the board of the Association of Judges of the Baltic States and in the Board of the International Association of Judges. He had been lecturer in the Latvian Judicial Training Centre and in the BA School of Business and Finance. 

In 1988, when group of Latvian Popular Front was established in the Supreme Court, the judge Lepse was its Head. He was awarded with the Commemorative Medal for Participants of the Barricades of 1991.

The judge Andrejs Lepse was awarded with the Mark of Distinction of the Judiciary for contribution to development of judicial system, strengthening of democracy and rule of law.

The Supreme Court expresses its condolences to the family of the judge Andrejs Lepse