RIGA (LATVIA) 2 AND 3 MARCH 2020

On 2 and 3 March 2020, the CEPEJ organised a meeting in Riga aiming at conducting an assessment of the Mediation scheme in Latvia. The experts, who are former members of the CEPEJ Working Group on mediation, therefore thoroughly exchanged with the key actors of mediation (mediators, judges, lawyers, ministry of justice) in order to collect as much information and data as possible to draft the Assessment report, on which the rest of the Action will be based. The setting up of a mediation pilot project has also been discussed with the Latvian authorities. This meeting directly followed the “Round table to present CEPEJ-GT-MED tools” which was organised in Riga on 21 February, where concrete tools developed by the CEPEJ Working Group on Mediation and aiming at developing the use of mediation were presented to relevant stakeholders.

This activity was organised in the framework of the joint Council of Europe and European Union project “Strengthening the access to justice in Latvia through fostering mediation and legal aid services, as well as support to the development of judicial policies and to increased quality of court management” funded through the European Commission’s Structural Reform Support Programme.