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15 July 2026

Judicial officers recovered EUR 189.5 million in debt for creditors in the first half of the year

Judicial officers recovered EUR 189.5 million in debt for creditors during the first half of 2026. This represents an increase of EUR 40 million, or 27 per cent, compared with the same period last year. A total of 21,000 unique creditors recovered all or part of their outstanding claims during the first six months of the year.

17 April 2026

Judicial officers of Lithuania and Moldova seek new solutions together

The best practices developed by Lithuanian judicial officers will further strengthen the private enforcement system in Moldova, while successful solutions from Moldovan colleagues are inspiring Lithuania to expand the scope of judicial officers’ competencies.

27 March 2026

Changes in the enforcement process and future directions of the profession discussed at the Meeting of judicial officers

At the Meeting of Lithuanian judicial officers held on 27 March 2026, the most important developments in the enforcement system, challenges facing the profession, and future objectives were discussed.

20 January 2026

Judicial officers recovered EUR 326.6 million in debts for creditors in 2025

12 December 2025

Judicial Officer S. Vaicekauskienė Receives the Award “For Merit in Human Rights”

At a ceremony held at the Ministry of Justice on 12 December, judicial officer Sonata Vaicekauskienė, Chair of the Judicial Officers’ Court of Honour, was presented with the “For Merit in Human Rights – 2025” award alongside other representatives of the justice system.

9 December 2025

Director of the Chamber of Judicial Officers of Lithuania D. Šnirpūnė: “More flexible enforcement procedures and support for businesses are the common direction of judicial officers’ activities across Europe”

During an international conference held in Bulgaria, participants discussed the changing role of judicial officers in modern society, as well as opportunities to help individuals and businesses resolve financial difficulties through non-coercive measures.

21 July 2025

The cost of relief measures for debtors – over 20 million euros lost by creditors

For the first time in decades, key indicators of debt recovery carried out by judicial officers have significantly decreased.

29 April 2025

Minister of Justice R. Mockus: “We will improve the enforcement process in order to balance the interests of creditors and debtors”

On April 29, after greeting the participants of the Judicial Officers’ Assembly, Minister of Justice Rimantas Mockus thanked the community of judicial officers for their significant role in helping to enforce court decisions and strengthening the public’s trust in the state’s legal system.

12 March 2025

Judicial officers in the Netherlands and Lithuania: differences suggest new ideas

On 6-8 March, representatives of the Royal Professional Organization of Judicial Officers in The Netherlands (Koninklijke Beroepsorganisatie van Gerechtsdeurwaarders, KBvG), president Chris Bakhuis and board member Patrick Plate, visited Vilnius with a practical visit. The main purpose of the visit was to get acquainted with the use of information technologies in the Lithuanian enforcement process. And the face-to-face meetings turned into an exchange of mutually beneficial experiences.

16 January 2025

Last year, judicial officers recovered 14.3 percent more debts to creditors

With the assistance of judicial officers, 18.2 thousand creditors recovered at least a portion of their claimed debts in 2024. This group included 5 thousand legal entities and 12.8 thousand natural persons. Additionally, an ongoing collection of periodic maintenance payments (so-called alimony) benefited nearly 39.5 thousand creditors.

18 November 2024

D. Satkauskienė, Head of the Chamber of Judicial Officers of Lithuania: Strong Self-Governance of Judicial Officers Strengthens the Rule of Law

As private judicial officers in Kosovo commemorate a decade of professional activity, the Head of the Chamber of Judicial Officers of Lithuania, Dovilė Satkauskienė, encouraged her colleagues in this Balkan country to further strengthen professional self-governance and focus on internationally recognised priorities for improving judgment enforcement.

8 July 2024

Kosovo is the eighth European country to adopt the experience of Lithuanian judicial officers

Representatives of the Kosovo Chamber of Private Enforcement Agents and the Kosovo Ministry of Justice visited Vilnius on 2-3 July. The purpose of the visit was to get acquainted with the activities of the Lithuanian self-governance institutions of judicial officers and the organisation of debt enforcement processes in our country.

12 March 2024

The Courts Recognise the Majority of Actions by Judicial Officers as Legal

Despite a slight increase in the number of new enforcement cases, the number of complaints submitted to courts regarding the actions of judicial officers continued to decrease in 2023.

13 February 2024

The demand for serving foreign documents began to increase

After a slight decrease recorded in 2022, the demand for serving foreign documents began to increase in 2023.

11 January 2024

Judicial Officers Recover a Quarter More Debts in 2023

Judicial officers successfully collected and returned 280.3 million euros of debts to creditors in 2023, reflecting a 25 per cent increase compared to the amount recovered in 2022.

24 July 2023

Judicial officers: the amount of repayable debts is increasing and the flow of new debts is stable

During the first half of 2023, the judicial officers returned 139 million euros of debts to the creditors. This is 28 percent more than in January-June 2022. 27.7 million euros were returned to the state institutions and 111.3 million euros to the private individuals and legal entities.

5 July 2023

Introducing the Representatives of Kazakhstan Courts to the Activities of Judicial Officers in Lithuania

On 4 July 2023, the Chamber of Judicial Officers of Lithuania welcomed the Heads of the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan, the Court of Administration, and a delegation of judges from the country.

14 June 2023

Commentary to Part VI of the Code of Civil Procedure – A Tool for More Effective Enforcement of Court Decisions

The release of Scientific Practical Commentary to Part VI of the Code of Civil Procedure addressing the enforcement process is particularly timely, even though the Code has been in force for 22 years, and private judicial officers have been working for 20 years now. It is considered to be timely due to the fact that the practice of applying theoretical legal standards has formed, and the role of the judicial officer in the enforcement of court decisions has strengthened over the past two decades. And this was the basis for adding not only theoretical, but also particularly useful practical content to the commentary.

27 April 2023

The 20th anniversary of the activities of the Chamber of Judicial Officers of Lithuania was marked by exceptional achievements

On April 26th, Judicial Officers symbolically celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Chamber of Judicial Officers and formed self-governed institutions of judicial officers for the 2023-2026 tenure.

21 February 2023

Last year, judicial officers recovered 225.3 million euros of debts to creditors

During 2022, judicial officers collected and returned 225.3 million euros of debts to creditors. This is the largest sum collected in the 20 years that private judicial officers have been in operation in Lithuania. In comparison to 2021, the amount of debts recovered last year increased by 35%, or 58.8 million euros.

9 November 2022

Private judicial officers in Lithuania and Kazakhstan: different means to achieve the same goals

A remote international conference was held on November 8 to discuss topical subjects related to enforced debt recovery with private judicial officers working in the Karaganda region of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

16 September 2022

A day with Estonian colleagues – a broader look at today's judicial officer's profession

The visit of Estonian judicial officers in Vilnius on September 15 provided an opportunity to share news among colleagues relating to the judicial officer profession, and compare the judgment enforcement systems of Estonia and Lithuania.

21 July 2022

Judicial officers: the debt claim "quarantine" ends

During the first half of 2022, judicial officers returned 99.5 million euros of debts to private individuals and state institutions. This is 34% more than in January-June 2021.

16 June 2022

More possibilities of serving important documents to addressees living abroad will be available as of July 1

Unknown address of the recipient will no longer be an obstacle to the application of the international service procedure in European Union (EU) countries as of July 2022. Document senders will be able to find out and verify the addresses of relevant recipients by contacting a competent authority of the country where the addressee resides, or by viewing detailed information available on the European e-Justice Portal.

20 January 2022

Judicial officer statistics: the curve of repaid debts is rising, while the number of new debts is decreasing

In 2021, judicial officers recovered and repaid 166.3 million euros of debts to creditors, which is 19% or 26.4 million euros more than in 2020.

22 July 2021

Statistics of debt recovery: the amount of repaid debts is increasing, while the sums of new claims are decreasing

During the first half of 2021, judicial officers were able to recover EUR 74,4 million of debt owed to private individuals and state institutions. That's 61 percent. more than last year (the first half of 2020). Two out of three creditors, who applied for debt recovery, had their debts recovered in full.

28 June 2021

Recovery from digital money is a task of the time for all countries, including Lithuania

Digitization does not leave any country aside. Therefore, debt recovery from digital money must be as global as the development of virtual currencies.

6 May 2021

The pandemic did not reduce the need to serve international documents

In 2020, the need for service of foreign documents in Lithuania has remained similar to that of 2019: Chamber of Judicial Officers of Lithuania has received 405 requests (in 2020 there were 408) for service of judicial and extrajudicial documents in the territory of Lithuania from 30 different countries.

20 April 2021

The activities of the Chamber of Judicial Officers of Lithuania were reviewed during a remote meeting of judicial officers

During the XXII Meeting of Judicial Officers, which took place in the 19th of April, 2021, the activity report of the Chamber of Judicial Officers of Lithuania was approved. The guidelines for further activities of the association were also defined. Just like many other events during the quarantine period, this meeting was organized remotely.

28 January 2021

Last year two out of three creditors who applied to the judicial officers have successfully recovered all of their debts

Despite quarantine constraints, 2020 was a favorable year for creditors. 139.9 thousand, or 63 percent the judicial officers fulfilled the claims submitted in full by repaying all the funds belonging to the creditors or ensuring the enforcement of non-monetary claims.

11 December 2020

The importance of EU’s „Find a Bailiff“ project has increased during conditions of the pandemic

For the Member States of the European Union (EU) – it is a unified platform, which publishes relevant information regarding institutions, which are responsible for the enforcement of decisions. For all of the citizens of EU – it is a possibility to easily find a judicial officer in any Member State of the EU.

7 December 2020

15 years of private practice of Bulgaria’s judicial officers: from deficit of justice to legal sustainability

The 2005 institutional reform of judicial officers, implemented in Bulgaria, took the country away from an era of deficit of justice, back when decisions were not enforced, and created an effective debt recovery system. Currently, Bulgaria’s judicial officers recover 150 mil. Bulgarian Lev every year. (76,5 mil. Euros) of late wages, alimony, overdue loans, fines for violations of traffic and driving rules and other types of debt.

28 September 2020

Effective work of judicial officers raises Lithuania to the top of the Doing Business 2020 ranking

In 2020, Lithuania rose to 11th place in Doing Business – business community's most important ranking, published annually by the World Bank. This is the highest position achieved by Lithuania since the announcement of the said ranking.

20 July 2020

Statistics of quarantine: 39 percent less new debts were submitted to judicial officers

68.9 thousand new claims for forced debt recovery were submitted to judicial officers during the first six months in 2020. This is 39 percent less than during the same period last year.

30 June 2020

A new procedure for sending judicial officers' documents will come into force on July 1st

Amendments to the Code of Civil Procedure will enter into force on 1 July, which will speed up and reduce the cost of informing participants in the forced debt recovery process.

21 April 2020

Even though judicial officers are continuing their work, around 4.3 million euros of debts will not be paid to creditors in April

During the past five weeks of quarantine, the possibilities of actual debt recovery in Lithuania have decreased by half. Judging by the statistics of judicial officers, approximately 4.3 million euros of debts will not be paid to creditors in April, i.e. the amount of returned debts will be 4.3 million euros less than the usual amount repaid within a month prior to the declaration of an emergency. In March, the amount of actually recovered debts decreased by about 15 percent which is approximately 645 thousand euros.

20 April 2020

The 20th meeting of Lithuanian judicial officers took place remotely

Despite the quarantine restrictions, the 20th meeting of Lithuanian judicial officers took place. The members of the association could not meet in one hall, but all important issues were resolved by electronic voting on April 17.

30 March 2020

Judicial officers’ offices during quarantine: physically closed, but open online

After transitioning to working remotely as of March 16, judicial officers are continuing to provide most of their regular services to creditors and debtors during the quarantine period. They are aware of the fact that this temporary emergency and quarantine do not eliminate their professional duty to perform functions assigned by the state and help parties to civil proceedings ensure their interests.

4 March 2020

Progress of judicial officers in Moldova: although results are obvious, they are difficult to measure

Compared to the former judicial officers' system, the advantage of judicial officers' system of the liberal Moldova reformed in 2010 is already beyond doubt. The challenge today is to form clear criteria for measuring the efficiency of activities of private judicial officers and continue the modernisation of debt recovery procedures.

30 January 2020

Judicial officers’ statistics: 1.5 times more debt repayment

In 2019, judicial officers returned to creditors nearly 103.7 million euros debts. That is 53 percent, or 36 million euros more than recovered in 2018. 89.9 million euros returned to private persons, 13.8 million euros – for public authorities.

2 December 2019

Digital asset recovery: how to turn challenges into opportunities?

Initiated by the International Union of Judicial Officers (UIHJ), the Global Code for the Enforcement of Digital Assets aims to accelerate the development of practical recovery tools for various types of digital property.

9 September 2019

Lithuania and Ukraine: judicial officers’ assistance relevant to enforcement of arbitral awards

Arbitration courts can be superior to state courts in shorter and simpler dispute resolution processes. However, effective arbitration procedures are necessary for the successful party to have a real practical outcome.

30 July 2019

Ukraine is interested in Lithuania's experience in modernizing debt collection processes

Without new information technology, further development of the Ukrainian private enforcement system is impossible. Private judicial officers in Ukraine is seeking effective debt recovery and it is useful to listen to the advice of their successful European colleagues. Such insights were expressed during international conference "New Challenges of the Private Bailiff's Profession" which took place in Odessa, Ukraine on the 26th of July, 2019.

26 June 2019

Ukrainian colleagues have been given experience of strengthening the self-government of private judicial officers

How to ensure the success of the Ukrainian private judicial officers' self-governing structures and how to effectively implement the National Private Judicial Officers Association strategy. Answers to these questions were made on June 25th meeting of representatives of Ukrainian private judicial officers association and international experts in Dnipro. It was organized in the framework of the European Union “Pravo-Justice” project, which aims to support legal and justice reforms in Ukraine.

18 April 2019

Experienced and Young People in Renewed Self-governed Institutions of Judicial Officers

At the judicial officers‘ meeting on April 17, self-governed institutions of judicial officers were renewed and the operational objectives for the next four years were identified.

4 February 2019

Judicial officers worked more efficiently in 2018 and recovered 1.5 times more debts

Compulsory recovery system is used in Lithuania increasingly less in order to recover small debts. The total number of new debt recovery claims is decreasing.

11 January 2019

The Seimas approved the initiative of Chamber of Judicial Officers of Lithuania: it was authorized to borrow for the purchases of auction

From July of 2019 it will be authorized to borrow for the purchase of auction by pledging it to the grantor of credit. On the 11 of January the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania approved the draft Law on the Amendment of Articles of the Code of Civil Procedure (XIIP-4110(2)), which provides an opportunity to pledge the seized property in the auction and acquire it by funds by debt.

18 December 2018

People trust judicial officers despite all the negative public opinions on the profession

In 2018, the willingness of people to use the services of a judicial officer to recover their debts was the highest in the last three years. This is supported by the data collected during the 2016-2018 public opinion surveys.

15 November 2018

I. Karaliene: Advancement of Excellence and Technology – Engine for Improving the Performance of Judicial Officers

The international conference in Belarusian capital Minsk was held on November 14th where participants were presented with the advantages of Lithuanian decision-making system, based on high competence of private judicial officers and rapid implementation of information technologies.

13 November 2018

The Opinion of Portal Readers: Easing of The Debt Burden Should Not Boomerang Creditors

People's sensibility to debtors is not unconditional and is not the same as preparing to assume a portion of the financial burden for themselves.