Updating role of national Supreme courts in protection of human rights, the Supreme Court in cooperation with Riga Graduate School of Law organises international conference for judges of supreme courts on the 2nd of May.

Judges of Latvian, Estonian, Lithuanian and Polish Supreme Courts, Ineta Ziemele and Danute Jociene (Danutė Jočienė), judges of European Court of Human Rights, as well as judges of Constitutional Court and lecturers of Riga Graduate School of Law will participate in conference.

Main subject of the conference is dialogue and interaction between different courts in human rights context.

Ineta Ziemele and Danute Jočiene will review dialogue of the ECHR and national court and subsidiarity of system of European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms through concrete cases of the ECHR. In his turn, Peter Gjortler, associated professor of Riga Graduate School of Law, will analyse application of human rights in European Court of Justice.

Gintaras Kryzevicius, the Chairman of the Supreme Court of Lithuania, will speak about challenges for implementation and direct application of European Convention of Human Rights in practice of the Supreme Court of Lithuania, and Tadeusz Erecinski, the President of the Supreme Court of Poland, will analyse influence of the ECHR rulings to Polish legislation and rulings of the Supreme Court in civil cases. Explanation of Eerik Kergandberg, the judge of the Supreme Court of Estonia, will describe place and role of the ECHR in Estonian court system, asking, if the ECHR is the fourth court of Estonia.

Representatives of the Supreme Court of Latvia will invite to participate in discussion about human rights in different branches of law – Kalvis Torgans, the senator of the Department of Civil Cases of the Senate, will report on responsibility for damage as means of protection of human rights in Latvian case-law; Peteris Dzalbe, the Chairman of the Department of Criminal Cases of the Senate will report on human rights within criminal proceedings, and Dace Mita, the senator, will analyse topical issues of human rights in case-law of the Department of Administrative Cases of the Senate of the Supreme Court.

However, Gunars Kutris, the Chairman of the Constitutional Court, will turn attention to dialogue of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court as means to protect human rights.

Conference “Role of National Supreme Courts in Protection of Human Rights” will take place on the 2nd of May from 10.00 until 17.00 in Riga Graduate School of Law.

Journalists wishing to display the conference should apply in the Division of Communication of the Supreme Court, telephones 67020396, 28652211.

 

 

 

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