On Thursday, 27 August, Justice of the Constitutional Court Artūrs Kučs participated remotely in the international conference, held by the Constitutional Council of Kazakhstan, “Constitution of the 21st Century – the Rule of Law, Human Value and Effectiveness of the State”. This year, Kazakhstan celebrates the 25th anniversary of its Constitution. Artūrs Kučs spoke about the […]

On Friday, 28 August, President of the Constitutional Court Ineta Ziemele and Advisor to the President Inguss Kalniņš met with the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Latvia Govert Jan Cornelis Bijl de Vroe. The initiative of the Netherlands’ Government to develop, in the framework of bilateral cooperation, projects of closer dialogue to […]

Today, on 31 August, Marika Laizāne-Jurkāne commences work as the Head of the Constitutional Court’s Administration. This position was created in reinforcing the management model for the Constitutional Court’s Administration in compliance with the European best practice examples. The Constitutional Court, as one of the constitutional bodies of the State, needs appropriate and professional administrative support. […]

On Thursday, 27 August, during the press conference held at the Constitutional Court, the President of the Constitutional Court Ineta Ziemele and the Director of the marketing and public opinion research centre SKDS Arnis Kaktiņš informed the public about the results of the first ever survey in which Latvian residents had been evaluating the Constitutional […]

In the first half of the year, the Constitutional Court initiated 40 cases, which significantly exceeds the total number of cases initiated in the previous year. As a result, active work in the Constitutional Court will continue into the second half of the year. Currently, the Constitutional Court is preparing 21 cases. 11 cases have […]

On 3 August 2020, the 4th Panel of the Constitutional Court initiated the case “On Compliance of the Programme and Sub-programme for Increasing the Remuneration for Work to Health Care Workers of the Law “On the State Budget for 2020”, insofar they do not Envisage an Increase of the State Financing for Increasing the Remuneration […]

On 3 August 2020, the Constitutional Court initiated the case “On Compliance of Para “c” of Article 3, Para 3 of Article 4 and Para 1 of Article 12 of the Council of Europe Convention of 11 May 2011 on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence with the Preamble, Article 1, Article 99 and Article 110 of the Satversme of the Republic of […]

On 3 August 2020, the 2nd Panel of the Constitutional Court initiated the case “On Compliance of Sub-para 28.2. and 28.19. of “Annex to the Law on Administrative Territories and Populated Areas “Administrative Territories, Administrative Centres thereof and the Units of Territorial Division”” with Article 1, the Article 101 of the Satversme of the Republic of Latvia and […]

On Friday, 17 July, at the Constitutional Court, in the presence of the author – Vice-president of the Constitutional Court Prof., Dr.iur. Sanita Osipova, President of Latvia Egils Levits, President of the Constitutional Court and the author of the foreword Prof., Ph.D. Ineta Ziemele, author of the foreword Prof., Dr.hist. Guntis Zemītis, representatives of the publisher […]

On 16 July 2020, the Constitutional Court delivered the judgement in case No. 2019-25-03 “On Compliance of the Words “if its average monthly income during the last three months per each member of the family does not exceed EUR 128.06” of Para 2 of the Cabinet Regulation of 30 March 2010 No. 229 “Regulations Regarding Recognising of a Family or […]