On the 26th of April, Saeima approved Livija Slica in the post of a judge of the Supreme Court, dismissing her from the post of a judge of Administrative regional court at the same time. 80 Parliamentarians placated, nobody voted contra and one Parliamentarian refrained.

Livija Slica was chosen for the post of a judge of the Supreme Court as a result of open competition for this post. When evaluating her candidacy in two stages of open competition of selection of candidates for the post of a judge of the Supreme Court and having received positive statement of Judicial Qualifications Committee, committee for selection of competitors admitted Livia Slica to be appropriate for the post of a senator of the Department of Administrative Cases of the Senate of the Supreme Court.

Livija Slica has worked as a judge of Administrative regional court since 2004, and she replaced vacancy of a senator of the Department of Administrative Cases of the Senate of the Supreme Court since 2011. Before Livija Slica started her work in administrative courts, she was judge of departments of land register of Preili and Daugavpils.

Livija Slica was born in 1971. She graduated Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia in 1997 and got Professional Master of Law in Latvian Police Academy in 2009. The judge was assigned the 2nd qualification class in 2011.

 

 

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