in an article dated March 20, 2013, the Baltic News Network reports an additional case of strange conditions in the Latvian legal system.
BNN reports:
In December 2012, Judge Melina of the Riga Centre District Court became famous when she ordered some legally impossible provisional measures against two of the richest companies in Latvia.
She ordered that these companies could not anymore register any changes in the Register of Enterprises unless some minority shareholders (Olegs Stepanovs’ company Topmar with less than 13% of the votes in the case of Ventbunkers and Stepanovs’ Lawyer Alekseys Ovods with less than 0.1% of the votes in the case of LNT) would give their consent to the registration. Many people asked with which means of doubtful legality she could be convinced to do something impossible like this.
But then, the Senate of the Supreme Court of Latvia ruled that provisional measures of this type are generally impermissible in commercial litigation. The Supreme Court’s ruling was notified to Melina. Everybody expected that she would follow the higher Court’s ruling and lift the impossible measures. But on 15 March 2013 judge Melina did the opposite and refused to lift the provisional measures. Her struggle to distinguish this case from the one handled by the Supreme Court can be viewed as artificial and bringing embarrassment to the legal community in her defiance to brush away the position taken by the Supreme Court.
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and refers to a press release published by AS Ventbunkers press service the previous day:
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