Case No 2015-10-01

Applicant: Persona A
Date of the judgment: 23.11.2015.
Official publication: 25.11.2015.

On Compliance of Section 7(3) of the Law "On Prevention of Conflict of Interest in Activities of Public Officials" with the First Sentence of Article 91 and Article 110 of the Satversme of the Republic of Latvia

Case short name: The Judge as an Assistant to a Disabled Child

The Constitutional Court held:

1. To recognise the third part of Section 7 of the law “On Prevention of Conflict of Interest in Activities of Public Official”with regard to a judge, who needs to provide assistant’s services to his own disabled child, as being compatible with Article 110 of the Satversme of the Republic of Latvia.
2. To recognise the third part of Section 7 of the law “On Prevention of Conflict of Interest in Activities of Public Official”with regard to a judge, who needs to provide assistant’s services to his own disabled child, as being incompatible with the first sentence of Article 91 of the Satversme of the Republic of Latvia.

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