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Chapter 30. Initiation and Termination of Criminal Proceedings (Sections 369-383)
Chapter 33. Criminal Prosecution (Sections 402-414)
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Chapter 48. Special Features of Court Proceedings in the Case of a Settlement between a Victim and an Accused (Sections 536-538)
Chapter 49. Special Features of Court Proceedings in Relation to an Agreement Entered into during Pre-trial Proceedings (Sections 539-543)
Chapter 50. Special Features of Court Proceedings in Entering Into an Agreement in Trial Proceedings (Sections 544-546)
Chapter 52. Preparation of a Case for Trial in an Appellate Court (Sections 549-559)
Chapter 53. Trial of a Case in Accordance with Appellate Procedures (Sections 560-568)
Chapter 54. Examination of a Case According to Cassation Procedures (Sections 569-591)
Chapter 55. Criminal Proceedings in Determining Compulsory Measures of a Medical Nature (Sections 592-609)
Chapter 56. Criminal Proceedings in Cases Regarding the Exoneration of a Deceased Person (Sections 610-616)
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Chapter 59. Proceedings Regarding Criminally Acquired Property (Sections 626-631)
Chapter 60. Entering into Effect, Transferring for Execution and Procedures for Execution of Judgments, Decisions and Penal Orders of a Prosecutor (Sections 632-639)
Chapter 61. Examination of Matters that have Arisen during the Execution of Judgments and Decisions (Sections 640-654)
Chapter 62. Renewal of Criminal Proceedings in connection with Newly Disclosed Circumstances (Sections 655-661)
Chapter 63. Examination De Novo of Valid Rulings in Relation to a Substantial Violation of the Norms of a Material or Procedural Law (Sections 662-672)
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Chapter 65. Extradition of a Person to Latvia (Sections 682-695)
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Chapter Ten. Initiation of Criminal Proceedings
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Efficiency of legal proceedings: the role and drafting of the cassation instance ruling
100 years long development path of judicial systems of the Baltic States
Supreme Courts as guarantee for effectiveness of judicial systems in the European Union
Commercial Law in Baltic Legal Space – conference dedicated to the 150th anniversary of August Loeber
Courts in Legal Culture Space
Role of Supreme Courts in the Protection of Human Rights
Judicature of the Supreme Court and its role in development of legal thought in Latvia
Administrative Courts' 5 years anniversary
Development of the Supreme Court
Judges and Attorneys in interaction
History
Senate
Beginnings of the Senate
Developments until 1940
Structure of the Senate
Liquidation of the Senate
Senators 1918-1940
Incorporation into the USSR 1940-1990
Supreme Court of the Republic of Latvia
Restoration of the independence
Rehabilitation of persons subject to repression
Establishing the three-instance court system
Judicial reform: liquidation of the Supreme Court Chambers
Former Chief Justices of the Supreme Court
Judges Emeriti
Palace of Justice
Supreme Court Museum
Senate of Latvia - 100
Administrative Justice - 100
Senate on the Constitution (Satversme)
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1999
14.12.1999.
Decision of the Department of Criminal Cases, case No SKK-344/1999
Contradictory conclusions cannot be admitted in the Court's ruling. The conclusions reached in the decision must be clear and precise, so as not to cast doubt on its translation and execution
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