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Sporta Avīze: Racism in sport. Incidents in the sports in Latvia
Elvis Grinbergs, associate, and Āris Kakstāns The fight against racism in sports is broad, active and well-heard. FIFA and UEFA, the leading football organizations, are particularly actively involved in it, both by leading public awareness campaigns and by applying a zero tolerance policy for any activities displaying racism. The past year in Latvian sports, in […]
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Energy community regulation under development in Latvia
On 16 June 2022, the Saeima approved on first reading amendments to the Energy Law and the Electricity Market Law, which, among other things, regulate energy communities. Despite the fact that energy communities are well-known elsewhere in Europe, to date, there is no regulation specifically of energy communities in Latvia, and the concept is relatively […]
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Comparison of arbitration institutions 2021
For business, dispute resolution is an unnecessary cost that must be avoided as much as possible. Experience shows that parties rarely pay much attention to the dispute resolution mechanisms in their contracts. Because of this, referring to the dispute resolution provision in a contract as the “midnight clause” or as the “champagne clause” makes perfect […]
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Sorainen Arbitration Series. Interviews with Arbitration Institutions
Sorainen Arbitration Series is a series of interviews to be released until the end of 2020 with Arbitration Institutions, which are of particular interest to users from Baltics and Belarus. Alexey Anischenko, Sorainen partner in Belarus and head of international arbitration, explains how did the idea of the project come out: «Clients keep asking which […]