On 7 June 2021, the 2nd Panel of the Constitutional Court initiated the case “On compliance of paragraph 2418 of the Cabinet of Ministers Regulation No 360 of 9 June 2020 ‘Epidemiological safety measures for the containment of the spread of COVID-19 infection’ (in the wording that was in force from 7 April 2021 until […]
On 5–7 July, the Constitutional Court President Sanita Osipova and Justice Gunārs Kusiņš are attending the international conference Equality and the Rule of Law: Contributions of the International Courts, which is taking place in Madrid, the Kingdom of Spain. On the second day of the conference, the President of the Constitutional Court Sanita Osipova spoke […]
On 22 June 2021, the 1st Panel of the Constitutional Court initiated the case “On compliance of paragraph 2418 of the Cabinet of Ministers Regulation No 360 of 9 June 2020 ‘Epidemiological safety measures for the containment of the spread of COVID-19 infection’ (in the wording that was in force from 7 April 2021 until […]
On 21 June 2021, the Constitutional Court passed a judgment in Case No 2020-41-0106 “On compliance of sub-paragraphs 8.5, 8.7, 8.8, 8.16, 8.17, 8.19, 8.20, 10.2, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.17, 10.18, 10.21, 10.23, 11.2, 12.10, 12.13, 13.8, 13.9, 13.13, 13.16, 13.20, 16.2, 16.5, 16.11, 16.14, 16.18, 16.19, 16.20, 18.1, 18.8, 18.10, 19.18, 19.20, 23.1, 23.2, […]
On 14 June 2021, the 2nd Panel of the Constitutional Court initiated the case “On the compliance of the first sentence of Paragraph 4 of the Transitional Provisions of the Construction Law with Article 1, the first sentence of Article 91, and the first sentence of Article 106 of the Constitution of the Republic of […]
The Constitutional Court received 112 applications related to the COVID-19 restrictions between the declaration of the state of emergency in spring 2020 and 25 September 2023. 110 applications were constitutional complaints, of which 6 were collective applications. One application was received from a municipal council regarding the procedure for the government to grant loans to municipalities […]
On 11 June 2021, the Constitutional Court adopted a judgement in Case No. 2020-50-01 “On Compliance of Section 4, Clause 4 of the Law on the Course of Service of Officials with Special Service Ranks Working in Institutions of the System of the Ministry of the Interior and the Prison Administration with Article 101 and […]
In 2018 the Parliament and the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia adopted and amended a series of legislative acts with the aim to promote the use of the official language in the educational process, starting with pre-school education and ending with higher education. Several issues pertaining to the reform of the language […]
On 9 June 2021, the 4th Panel of the Constitutional Court initiated the case “On compliance of paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 of the Cabinet of Ministers Regulation No 859 of 8 November 2011 ‘Regulation on the maximum amount of expenditure on legal aid reimbursable to a private individual’ (in the wording which was in […]
On 4 June 2021, the 1st Panel of the Constitutional Court initiated the case “On compliance of Section 32(4) and (8) of the Law on the Election of Local Government Councils with Article 101 of the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia”. Contested Provisions Section 32(4) of the Law on the Election of Local Government […]
