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Efficiency of legal proceedings: the role and drafting of the cassation instance ruling

 

Time and venue of the Conference

December 3, 2021, Zoom platform

Participants

Latvian judges, representatives of the supreme courts of France, Estonia, Lithuania, representatives of the Latvian Constitutional Court, representatives of the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice.

Agenda

10.00–10.15 Opening speeches: Aigars Strupišs, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Latvia and Chantal Arens, First President of the French Court of Cassation

10.15–11.00 Patrick Matet, Honorary Judge of the French Court of Cassation: New regulation of the structure and drafting of rulings, its application in practice 11.00–11.15 Elīna Grigore-Bāra: Techniques of reasoning in cassation instance rulings

11.15–11.30 Pause

11.30–11.45 Kai Kullerkupp, Judge of the Supreme Court of Estonia: Method of writing judgments and reasoning in the Supreme Court of Estonia

11.45–12.00 Rima Ažubalytė, Judge of the Supreme Court of Lithuania: The role of reasoning in cassation instance rulings in Lithuania

12.00–12.15 Normunds Salenieks, Judge of the Supreme Court of Latvia: The role of reasoning in the implementation of the public-legal function of the cassation

12.15–12.30 Küllike Jürimäe, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights:  CJEU as a reasoning technique of the cassation instance

12.30–13.00 Discussion on the addressee of the cassation instance ruling, the use of the theory of reasoning techniques for the perceptibility of court rulings, as well as on the cassation instance ruling as a tool to ensure the uniformity and development of case law

Mārtiņš Mits, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights: Reasoning of the cassation instance ruling in the view of the European Court of Human Rights

Anita Poļakova, Judge of the Supreme Court: Peculiarities in the use of reasoning techniques in criminal proceedings in cassation

Rītis Krasausks, Judge of the Supreme Court of Lithuania: Abstract review of regulatory enactments in the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania

Patrick Matet, Honorary Judge of the French Court of Cassation

13.00–13.05 Closing remarks: Aigars Strupišs, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Latvia

Conference reports

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Latvia Aigars Strupišs (in Latvian)

First President of the French Court of Cassation Chantal Arens (in Latvian)

 Chair of the Department of Civil Cases of the Supreme Court of Latvia Normunds Salenieks (in Latvian)

Chair of the Department of Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of Latvia Anita Poļakova (in Latvian)

More about the Conference

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