The Constitutional Court recognised that the norm laying down the right of the electricity system operator to recalculate the amount of electricity in the event of a violation of the conditions for electricity consumption conforms to the Constitution. The Court emphasised that the recalculation method ensures compliance with the principle of individualisation and such economic equivalence […]

Today, 28 November, the elections of the President and the Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia took place. Irēna Kucina was elected as the President of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia for a three-year term unanimously, and Anita Rodiņa was elected as the Vice-President of the Constitutional Court […]

Today, on November 21, Dr.iur. Juris Juriss gave the Judge’s oath to President of Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs and entered into office as the Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia. About Juris Juriss Juris Juriss was born on 10 December 1975. In 2013, obtained a doctoral degree in criminal law from the […]

A case has been initiated before the Constitutional Court 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, insofar as it prohibits a person who has been convicted for […]

The Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional the prohibition to hold the position of insolvency administrator for a person against whom criminal proceedings for the commission of a deliberate criminal offence have been dismissed on non-rehabilitating grounds. The Court stressed that lifetime restrictions exclude the presumption that a person is capable of changing his or her behaviour […]

The Constitutional Court declared compatible with the Constitution the norm which established that the defence counsel of a natural person subject to administrative liability had no right to sign a complaint to be submitted to court. The Court emphasised that the requirement for the person to sign the complaint implements the principle of personal participation […]

On 17 and 18 October 2024, a seminar for the judges and legal staff of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia and the Constitutional Court of Ukraine will be held in Riga, implemented in the framework of the project “Support to development of the constitutional justice in Ukraine” as part of the European […]

The Constitutional Court declared that the norms (in the wording in force until 31 March 2022) which established the procedures for cancelling the compulsory procurement rights granted to a merchant and imposed the obligation to repay the state aid received for a given period if the annual electricity report was not submitted are constitutional. The Constitutional […]

On Thursday, 26 September, the Deputy Chairperson of the Constitutional Court, Irēna Kucina, attended the annual conference of judges of the Baltic States, moderating the conference session “20 years in the European Union: Interaction of the Baltic Courts with the Court of Justice of the European Union”. This year’s conference was held in Sigulda, Latvia, and […]

A case has been initiated before the Constitutional Court on compliance of Section 312(3) of the Electricity Market Law with Section 92 of the Constitution and on compliance of Sub-paragraphs 48.5, 48.8 and 60.1 (in the wording in force until 31 March 2022) of the Cabinet Regulation No 560 “Regulation Regarding the Generation of Electricity Using Renewable Energy […]