In its judgment of 23 March, 2023 in Case No. SKC-100/2023, the Senate of the Supreme Court addressed the issue of potentially offensive statements and conduct...

In July 2023, the Jurisprudence and Scientific Analysis Division of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Latvia has published a new compilation of the case law of the Senate...

In its judgment of 15 March 2023 in case No. SKC-11/2023, the Senate of the Supreme Court has ruled on the determination of the amount of compensation for damages caused in a road traffic accident.

The Civil Procedure Law has been subject to several substantial amendments in the second half of 2006

On 1 March 2006 amendments to the Civil Law of Latvia came into force changing the statutory remedies available to contracting parties in cases of payment delays and fine-tuning the statutory rights and requirements concerning claims for compensation of moral damages

In an effort to combat various abuses of arbitration process in Latvia, the Latvian parliament ("Saeima") has passed an amendment to the Civil Procedure Law tightening the regulation of arbitration process and arbitration courts in Latvia. The amendment introduces a mandatory registration requirement for institutional arbitration bodies, expands the scope of issues which may not be referred to arbitration in Latvia, sets out new rules of enforceability of arbitral awards, clarifies certain proce