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
International conference discusses the reasoning technique in the rulings of the cassation instance court, www.at.gov.lv, 03.12.2021.