11 March, 2024
From March 11 to 12, at the Supreme Court of Latvia, the Judicial Council of Latvia will host a meeting of representatives of the member states of the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ) in order to discuss the strengthening of professional attractiveness of the judicial career.
This is the second meeting of representatives of the ENCJ member states taking place within the framework of the project on strengthening the attractiveness of the judicial career. During the meeting, representatives of the Judicial Councils of the ENCJ member states will share their experience on the working conditions and remuneration of judges. Moreover, it is planned to hear a representative of the Judicial Council of Ukraine regarding the attractiveness of the judicial career, as well as to learn about the practice of the Judicial Council of Lithuania regarding the organizational conditions of work in the judicial system.
The purpose of the said ENCJ project is to develop good practice guidelines for strengthening the attractiveness of the judicial career, as Latvia and most other ENCJ member states face certain difficulties in attracting the best lawyers to the judicial position. The guidelines are planned to be approved at the ENCJ General Assembly, which will take place from June 12 to 14 in Rome (Italy). Aigars Strupišs, the Chair of the Judicial Council of Latvia, together with a representative of the Judicial Council of Belgium, are the coordinators of this project.
Representatives of the Judicial Councils of Latvia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Ireland, Great Britain, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Ukraine, Hungary, Germany and Sweden will participate in the discussion.
Additional information:
The ENCJ unites the national institutions in the member states of the European Union which are independent of the executive and legislature. The purpose of the establishment of ENCJ is to promote the cooperation of the Judicial Councils of the EU member states, the mutual exchange of experience and the analysis of shared information. Judicial Council of Latvia has been a member of the ENCJ since 2011. More information about the ENCJ is available here.