he Judicial Council of Latvia has published its Annual Report for 2025, providing a comprehensive overview of the Council's work and the performance of the judicial system over the past year.
The report highlights the Judicial Council's activities in carrying out its statutory responsibilities, with particular emphasis on decisions concerning judicial careers. It also reflects on the key challenges faced by the judiciary during 2025 and the Council's efforts to address issues affecting the independence and effective functioning of the courts.
Special attention is devoted to the proposed reform of judges' pensions, where the Judicial Council actively participated in the legislative process to safeguard the constitutional principles of the separation of powers and judicial independence. The report also outlines the contribution of the multi-year PwC study on improving the efficiency of Latvia's judicial system and court budget planning, implemented under the European Commission's Technical Support Instrument.
As in previous years, the report includes key statistical indicators on court performance in 2025, including the number of cases received and resolved, the backlog of pending cases, average case processing times and court clearance rates.
This Annual Report of the Judicial Council is an edited machine-translation (using DeepL AI-enabled translation tool) of the Tieslietu padomes 2025. gada gada pārskats. Claude (Sonnet 4.6) large language model and the embedded and connected tools available as part of the user-interface were used to assist the production of the visualisations and graphs in the section „Performance Indicators” which is based on the data and graphs that were collected and produced by the Judicial Council.