On 15th and 16th March, a delegation of the Latvian Constitutional Court participated in the 138th Plenary Session of the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) and the 21st meeting of the Bureau of the World Conference on Constitutional Justice, in which the resolution proposed by the Latvian Constitutional Court on restoring the international legal […]

On 1 March of 2024, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia organized the international conference “The Role of the Constitutional Courts in Concretising the Shared Values Uniting Europe”. The conference was held to honour the 20th anniversary since Latvia became a Member State of the European Union. Values like democracy, the rule of […]

Today at 10.00, to mark the 20th anniversary of Latvia’s membership in the European Union, the Constitutional Court will hold international conference “The Role of the Constitutional Courts in Concretising the Shared Values Uniting Europe” to initiate discussion among the European national constitutional courts, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European […]

On February 29, the fourth trilateral cooperation meeting was held with the participation of judges of the Constitutional Court of Latvia, the Constitutional Court of Lithuania and the Supreme Court of Estonia. In the working sessions, the judges made presentations on procedural guarantees arising from the right to a fair trial, constitutional protection of the national […]

A case has been initiated before the Constitutional Court on the application of the Riga City Court on the conformity of Paragraph 113 of Cabinet Regulation No. 50 of 21 January 2014, Regulations on Electricity Trade and Use, with Article 64 and Article 105 of the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia and Section 32, […]

On 1 March 2024, to mark the 20th anniversary of Latvia’s membership in the European Union, the Constitutional Court will hold international conference “The Role of the Constitutional Courts in Concretising the Shared Values Uniting Europe” to initiate discussion among the European national constitutional courts, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the […]

Today, on 19 February, within the framework of the European Union and the Council of Europe Joint Programme “The Partnership for Good Governance”, the project “Support to development of constitutional justice in Ukraine”, which will last until August 2025, was launched. Judges and employees of the Latvian and Ukrainian Constitutional Courts, as well as representatives […]

The Constitutional Court found that the currently effective version of Section 58 of the Transitional Provisions of the Immigration Law complies with the Constitution. The Court concluded that the contested provision, when viewed systemically in the context of other legal provisions, gives citizens of the Russian Federation a real ability to obtain a new legal […]

On 9 February, a delegation of the Constitutional Court of Latvia visited the judges of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands in The Hague to discuss the protection of fundamental rights of future generations, rulings in controversial cases, and the limits of the legislator’s discretion in the field of taxation. A day earlier, President of […]

Esteemed Mr President, Esteemed President of the Court of Justice of the European Union, Excellences, Ladies and gentlemen, Dear participants on-site and those following us remotely, This is the sixth time when the new judicial year of the Constitutional Court is opened at a solemn hearing, at which the Constitutional Court reports to every person […]

A case has been initiated before the Constitutional Court on a constitutional complaint “On Conformity of Section 4.15, Clause 2, Sub-clause “b” of the Law On the Register of Enterprises of the Republic of Latvia with Article 96 of the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia”. The contested norm provides that the public part of […]

Following an application by the Senate, a case has been initiated before the Constitutional Court “On the compliance of Section 6(3)(5) of Law on Forensic Experts with Article 101(1) and the first sentence of Article 106 of the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia”. The contested provision states that a person who previously was charged […]

The Constitutional Court concluded that the norm of the Cabinet Regulation which prohibited the import of mink into the territory of Latvia for a certain period of time in order to limit the spread of the COVID-19 infection complied with the right to own property provided for in Article 105 of the Constitution. The Constitutional Court […]

On December 15 and 16, President of the Constitutional Court of Latvia Aldis Laviņš participated in the 137th Plenary Session of the Venice Commission, where opinions on constitutional law issues affecting the Commission’s member states were approved. On December 16, at the plenary session of the Venice Commission, the President of the Constitutional Court of Latvia […]

At the application of the Senate, the case “On compliance of Section 19.1 (1) of Cabinet Regulation 1013 “Procedure for the owner of an apartment in a multi-apartment building to pay for services associated with the use of the apartment property” of 9 December 2008 (in the version effective between 1 October 2013 and 21 […]

On December 11, the 17th Annual Conference of the Constitutional Court of Latvia and the Constitutional Court of Lithuania was held, where judges discussed the impact of the geopolitical context on the settlement of constitutional disputes, as well as the latest developments in the case-law of both courts. In his opening address, President of the […]