Date of the judgment: 21.12.2015.
Official publication: 23.12.2015.
On Compliance of Section 2 of the Law of 25 September 2014 "Amendments to Insolvency Law" and the Law of 30 October 2014 "Amendments to Law on Prevention of Conflict of Interest in Activities of Public Officials" with Article 1 and the First Sentence of Article 106 of the Satversme of the Republic of Latvia
Case short name: The Insolvency Administrators as Officials and also - AdvocatesThe Constitutional Court held :
to recognise Section 2 of the law of 25 September 2014 “Amendments to the Insolvency Law” and the law of 30 October 2014 “Amendments to the Law on Prevention of Conflict of Interest in the Activities of Public Officials”, to the extent they do not ensure to administrators of insolvency proceedings, who are simultaneously also advocates, guarantees for professional activities for retaining the chosen employment, as being incompatible with the first sentence of Article 106 of the Satversme of the Republic of Latvia.
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