On 8 October 2019, the Constitutional Court made the decision in case No. 2018-20-01 “On Compliance of the Second Sentence of Section 2 (5) and the First Sentence of Section 30 (4) of the Law “On Institutions of Higher Education” with the First Sentence of Article 106 of the Satversme of the Republic of Latvia”. The Contested Norms Section 27 (5) of the […]

On 7 October 2019, the Constitutional Court adopted the decision in case No. 2018-19-03 “On Compliance of Para 100 and Para 139 of the Binding Regulation of the Ventspils City Council of 2 March 2012 No. 9 “Ventspils Free Port Rules” with Article 64 and the First and the Third Sentence of Article 105 of the Satversme”. The Contested Norms Para 100 of the […]

On the 1st and the 2nd of October, the Justices of the Latvian Constitutional Court, in the framework of trilateral co-operation hosted delegations from the Estonian Supreme Court and the Lithuanian Constitutional Court. This was the first meeting at the Latvian Constitutional Court of the Justices from the Baltic States who are reviewing issues of constitutional law […]

On the 1st and the 2nd of October, the Justices of the Constitutional Court will meet with Judges of the Estonian Supreme Court and the Lithuanian Constitutional Court in the framework of tri-lateral co-operation. In three working sessions, the parties will discuss the recent case law of the Courts and will discuss several relevant issues of constitutional […]

On Thursday, 26 September, the delegation from the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova (hereinafter – Moldova) visited the Constitutional Court; the delegation was accompanied by Ambassador of Moldova to Latvia Eugen Revenco. At the Constitutional Court, the delegation was welcomed by President of the Constitutional Court Ineta Ziemele, Justice of the Constitutional Court Daiga Rezevska, […]

On 25 September 2019, the 4th Panel of the Constitutional Court initiated the case “On Compliance of Para 9 of Annex 2 and Para 9 of Annex 4 of the Cabinet Regulation of 21 November 2018 No. 716 “Regulation on the National Guidelines on Pre-school Education and Model Programmes of Pre-school education” with Article 64, the first sentence of Article 112 and Article 114 of […]

On 19 and 20 September, Uldis Krastiņš, the Adviser to the Constitutional Court, participated in a seminar organised by the Academy of European Law (Europäische Rechtsakademie; hereafter – ERA) in Brussels on the legal regulation of the European Union (hereafter – the EU) on prohibition of discrimination. ERA seminar was organised for the judges of European […]

Today, on 23 September, the Constitutional Court announced the third successive competition of pupils’ drawings and essays dedicated to the basic law of this country – the Satversme of the Republic of Latvia (hereinafter – the Satversme). The competition is organised to mark the 98th anniversary since the adoption of the Satversme. The Constitutional Court invited teachers […]

On 19 September 2019, the 3rd Panel of the Constitutional Court initiated the case “On Compliance of Section 464 (41) of the Civil Procedure Law with the First Sentence of Article 92 of the Satversme of the Republic of Latvia”. The Contested Norm Section 464 (41) of the Civil Procedure Law provides that the decision adopted at the assignments […]

Today, on 16 September, President Egils Levits visited to Constitutional Court to take part in the opening of the book “The Satversme of the Republic of Latvia. Findings by the Constitutional Court” and discuss with the Justices relevant developments in the constitutional law in Latvia. During the opening of the book “The Satversme of the Republic […]