We are providing pro bono legal assistance to the Latvian Association of Beauticians and Cosmetologists. On 8 March 2021, the Association applied to the administrative court concerning Cabinet Regulation No. 655, “Regarding Declaration of the Emergency Situation”. In this order, the Cabinet prohibits the provision of beauty care services by beauticians and beauty care specialists […]
Our team successfully provided legal assistance to the municipality of Carnikava region concerning the Administrative Territorial Reform. During the reform, Carnikava municipality will merge with Ādaži municipality in one joint Ādaži region municipality. In this regard, the municipality of Carnikava region states that by adopting the Administrative territory and populated area law, the legislator has […]
We assisted SIA Novadu Ziņas, which publishes the regional newspaper Neatkarīgās Tukuma Ziņas, to address the Competition Council regarding suspicion of a violation of the principle of neutrality in competition in municipal operations and creating advantages for another regional newspaper. The principle of neutrality in competition is a norm that was included in the Competition […]
We provided legal assistance to event planning association “Šarmants” in a dispute over intellectual property. The core of the dispute concerns rights to the concept of an event – a matter that Latvian case law has paid little regard to. The client was advised by partner Andris Tauriņš.
Sorainen helped SIA “Novadu Ziņas” – the publisher of Neatkarīgās Tukuma Ziņas – successfully defend their interests before the Latvian Media Ethics council regarding ethics violations committed by the publisher “Tukuma Balss”. Breaches of the Code of Ethics On 18 June 2020, in light of a complaint submitted by SIA “Novadu Ziņas”, the Board […]