Department of Administrative Cases

The Department of Administrative Cases was established on February 6, 2004.

Anita KOVAĻEVSKA is the Chair of the Department of Administrative Cases. 

Anita Kovaļevska graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia in 2003 with a Master's degree in Social Sciences.

She has been a Senator of the Senate’s Department of Administrative Cases since 2018, and was elected as the Chair of the Department in 2024. She had been a member and the Chair of the Judicial Ethics Commission, and has been a member of the Disciplinary Court since 2022.

Prior to her appointment as a Senator, she was a judge at the District Administrative Court and the Regional Administrative Court, interned at the European Court of Human Rights, and was a judge’s assistant at the Constitutional Court. 

She had been a lecturer at the Latvian Christian Academy, Turība University, and since 2006 she has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia.

• Decision No 3 of the Plenary Session of the Supreme Court of 9 September 2024 “On the Election of the Chair of the Senate's Department of Administrative Cases"

The Department of Administrative Cases consists of the chair and ten senators.

Each senator in the Department of Administrative Cases has a personal assistant.

Six legal research counsels and a consultant also work in the Department.

Office work of the Department is ensured by the Chancery of the Supreme Court.

See information about authority and proceedings in the Department of Administrative Cases here.