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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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