On 13 July, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court accepted a vow of Irena Liepina, an advocate admitted to the Latvian Council of Sworn Advocates.

Irena Liepina has been Doctor of Law, Vice-president and legal adviser of trade union of Latvian communication employees, and associate professor at Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences.

To become a sworn advocate, a person who has an appropriate education and work experience, passes the advocates’ exam. Having passed the exam, if the Council of Sworn Advocates hasn’t received information on obstacles for admission of the new candidate stipulated in the Law on Advocacy, it admits a candidate to the community of sworn advocates. In accordance with Section 46 of the Law on Advocacy, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court accepts the oath of newly admitted advocates.

 

 

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