On Friday, March, 13, at 10.00 o’clock the Plenum of the Supreme Court will be called, and during this session judges will analyse and evaluate work of the Supreme Court in year 2008.

The statistical data which is already available in a homepage www.at.gov.lv in section of "Statistics", show that in year 2008 quantity of cases arrived in the Supreme Court has continued to grow and the number of cases pending in the end of the year has increased. The overload has been especially felt in reviewing of civil cases: in the Department of Civil Cases of the Senate, in comparison with previous year, the number of cases pending has almost doubled, and in the Chamber of Civil Cases there were more than 1000 cases were left pending in the end of the year.

In plenum results of work of the court will be analysed and solutions on optimisation of work will be offered.

Heads of departaments of the Senate Valerijans Jonikans, Pavels Gruzins and Veronika Krumina and Chair of Chambers Gunars Aigars and Ervins Kuskis will take the floor with reports.

The Head of the Department of judiciary practice Zigrida Mita and the Head of the Department of complaints Rolands Krauze will also inform on work done in the last year. The report on administrative work will be presented by the Head of Administration Sandra Lapina.

After hearing of reports of all structural units the generalized report about the work of the Supreme Court in year 2008 will be presented by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Ivars Bickovics.

After the plenum (approximately at 15.00 o'clock) the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court invites journalists to press conference in room 461. I.Bickovics will share his thoughts on evaluation of work and court problems. Chairs of departments of the Senate and chambers also will take part in press conference.

Journalists should order their passes in advance by phone 67020396.

 

 

Information prepared by

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

E-mail: rasma.zvejniece@at.gov.lv, telephone: 7020396, 28652211