From 26 to 28 November, Head of the Legal Department of the Constitutional Court Alla Spale, Court’s Adviser Sandijs Statkus and Justices’ Assistant Andris Pumpišs paid an experience sharing visit to the General Court of the European Union (hereafter – GCEU) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereafter – CJEU) in Luxemburg. They […]

Today, on 28 November, Justice of the Constitutional Court Daiga Rezevska participates at the 9th meeting of the CoE-FRA-ENNHRI-EQUINET Collaborative Platform on social and economic rights, in her report on the social and economic rights focusing on the way these rights have been revealed and specified in the Constitutional Court’s judicature. At the beginning of her presentation, […]

On 28 and 29 November, Justices of the Constitutional Court will meet with the Judges of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia (hereafter – Armenia) in the framework of bilateral cooperation. In four working sessions, the parties will discuss the recent judicature of the Courts, the independence of judges, issues related to the independence […]

On 25 November 2019, the 4th Panel of the Constitutional Court initiated the case “On compliance of the programmes 03.00.00 “Higher Education”, 02.03.00 “Higher Medical Education”, 20.00.00 “Cultural Education” and sub-programme 22.02.00 “Higher Education” of the Law “On the State Budget for 2019”, insofar these do not envisage annual increase of the State-allocated financing for studies […]

On 22 November 2019, the 4th Panel of the Constitutional Court initiated the case “On Compliance of Decision No. 1/7 of 18 April 2019 by the Board of the Public Utilities Commission “Regulation on the Connection to the Natural Gas Transmission System for Biomethane Producers, Liquefied Natural Gas System Operators and Natural Gas Users” with Article 1, Article 64, Article 89 and […]

On 19 November 2019, the 1st Panel of the Constitutional Court initiated the case “On Compliance of Para 2 of the Cabinet Regulation of 22 December 2009 No. 1605 “Regulations Regarding the Amount of the State Social Security Benefit and Funeral Benefit, Procedures for the Review thereof and Procedures for the Granting and Disbursement of Benefits” with Article 1, the […]

On 13 November 2019, the Constitutional Court passed the judgement in case No. 2018-22-01 “On Compliance of Section 1(1) of the Law of 22 March 2018 “Amendments to the Education Law” with Article 1, the second sentence of Article 91, the First Sentence of Article 112 and Article 114 of the Satversme of the Republic of Latvia”. The Contested Norm Section 1 (1) […]

On 13 November 2019, the 3rd Panel of the Constitutional Court initiated a case “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 […]

On 7 November 2019, the Constitutional Court passed the judgement in case No. 2018-25-01 “On Compliance of Section 504 of the Sentence Execution Code of Latvia with Article 91 of the Satversme of the Republic of Latvia”. The Contested Norm Section 504 of the Sentence Execution Code of Latvia (hereinafter – the Code) establishes the regime for serving the sentence […]

From 4 to 10 November, the Constitutional Court welcomed four Judges from the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Moldova (hereafter – Moldova) in the framework of the project “Increasing the capacity of the legal service of the Constitutional Court of Moldova”. During the project, Judges Domnica MANOLE, Nicolae ROȘCA, Liuba ȘOVA and Serghei ȚURCAN gained knowledge […]