Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia

European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission)

International Conference

 

Access to the Court: the Applicant in the Constitutional Jurisdiction

 

6 November 2009

 

Riga, Elizabetes 55, Reval Hotel Latvia, Conference hall “Omega 1”

Working languages: Latvian and English

 

PROGRAMME

 

9:00 – 9:30

Registration for the Conference

 

9:30 – 9:40

Opening of the Conference

 

9:40 – 10:00

Ms Aija Branta, Justice of the Constitutional Court of Latvia

“Breach of the Fundamental Rights in the Case-Law of the Constitutional Court

 

10:00 – 10:20

Mr Prof. Dr. Arne Mavcic, Reporter of the Venice Commission

“The Applicant before the Constitutional Court  - with a Special Reference to Individual Applications”

 

10:20 – 10:40

Ms Velga Slaidiņa, Adviser to the Ombudsman

“Submitting of an Application of the Ombudsman to the Constitutional Court Based on a Request of a Person”

 

10:40 –11:10

 

Questions and discussions

 

 

11:10 –11:30

Coffee break

 

11:30 – 11:50           

Mr Prof. Dr. Aivars Endziņš, former President of the Constitutional Court of Latvia

“The Applicant of the Constitutional Complaint”

 

11:50 – 12:10

Mr Jānis Pleps, Adviser to the Legal Bureau of the Saeima

“Meaning of the Notion “Fundamental Rights as defined in the Constitution” Included in Article 19.² of the Constitutional Court Law”

 

12:10 – 12:30

Mr Prof. Dr. Marcus González Beilfuss, Reporter of the Venice Commission, Representative of the Constitutional Court of Spain

“The Access to the Spanish Constitutional Court: The Administration of a Limited Good”

 

12:30 – 13:00

Questions and discussions

 

13:00 -14:30

Lunch

 

14:30 – 14:50

Mr Hugh Geoghegan, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland, Reporter of the Venice Commission

“Rights of Access to the Irish Courts for Complaints of Unconstitutionality”

 

14:50 –15:10

Ms Doc. Dr. Anita Rodiņa, acting Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Latvia

“Differentiation between a Constitutional Complaint and Actio popularis”

 

15:10 – 15:30

Ms Prof. Dr. Ilma Čepāne, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of Latvia

“Peculiarities of a Constitutional Complaint in the Environmental Cases”

 

15:30 – 16:00

Questions and discussions

 

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee break

 

16: 30 – 17:00

General discussions (all topics)

 

17:00

Closing of the Conference

 

 

 

 

Applying:

lina.kovalevska@satv.tiesa.gov.lv, 67830748