On 1 July this year, amendments to the Civil Procedure Law came into force affecting the procedure for enforcing judgments by changing the procedure for real estate auctions from auctions with physical participation to auctions in an e-environment. In insolvency proceedings, sale of real estate by e-auction will be introduced on 1 January 2016.

We have recently prepared a study on court practice in Latvia in board liability cases. A short summary of our main findings appears below.

Generally speaking, wrongful trading is the special form of liability where a director of a company is liable for damages towards the creditors for the mismanagement of an insolvent company.

A special feature of the institution of wrongful trading is, that it may give rise not only to the liability of the director of the company but also to the liability of the director, management, employee of the parent company or even of the grandparent company (so called shadow director).