Today, on January 21 at 15.00, the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />TallinnTown Hall will host a formal reception to celebrate the 86th anniversary of the Estonian prison system.
The Ministry of Justice has selected the Aivar Pilv Law Office as the state legal aid supplier in damage compensation cases related to the storm damages in Estonia.
The Government has decided to send amendments to the Riigikogu for the laws related to the notarial matters to mainly reduce the notarial fees and to shorten the notarial queues. The purpose of the changes is to lower the costs of the most popular services today – the sale of immovables and their encumbering with a mortgage. In order to reduce notarial queues, it is planned to use the digital signature and to give the municipal and county secretaries the right to perform simpler acts of identification.
Ken-Marti Vaher, the Minister of Justice will open a memorial plaque today at 12.00 on the wall of the former Patarei Prison to commemorate the thousands who were oppressed in the building during the occupation.
According to the Ministry of Justice, the state will help to protect the rights of the insurance takers, if the insurance companies will attempt to sneak out of compensating for the damages.
Ken-Marti Vaher, the Minister of Justice, will propose to the Government to appoint the current Leading Public Prosecutor Norman Aas (29) as the new Public General Prosecutor.
Today at 16.00 in the White Hall of the History Museum of the University of Tartu, the Minister of Justice and the Ilmamaa publishing house will present the book „The Birth of Law“ by Jüri Uluots, the last legal Prime Minister of the pre-occupation Republic of Estonia and the main author of Estonia's first constitution.
Ken-Marti Vaher, the Minister of Justice, will open today at 13.00 in a formal ceremony in the lobby of the Tartu Courthouse II floor the Estonian Court Accounting Center that unites the accounting units that had so far worked separately in all courts.
Priidu Pärna, the Ministry of Justice chancellor, has asked to be relieved of his position from February 1 and the Minister of Justice will suggest that the Government appointed the current general prosecutor Jüri Pihl as the new chancellor.
