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The Chancellor of Justice presents an annual report to the Riigikogu once a year on the performance of the duties which have been assigned to him or her by the Chancellor of Justice Act. Summaries of annual reports 2014 and 2015 are now also available in English.
On 22 September 2015, at the sitting of the Riigikogu, Ülle Madise presented her Annual Report on the performance of activities of the Chancellor of Justice in 2014 and in the first eight months of 2015.
Chancellor of Justice Indrek Teder asked the Riigikogu to pay attention to the continuing impact of invalid excessive state fees on justice proceedings.
Chancellor of Justice Indrek Teder has submitted to the Riigikogu a proposal to make the Imprisonment Act comply with the Constitution.
The Overview of the Chancellor of Justice describes the Chancellor’s activities as national preventive mechanism (OPCAT) and ombudsman for children. In addition, the overview also contains information about the general proceeding statistics of the year 2012.
For further information, please see: Overview 2012
The Chancellor of Justice submitted an application to the Supreme Court to declare invalid the provision of the Code of Criminal Procedure Implementation Act which excludes regular judicial control on postponement of notification of person concerned about secret surveillance activities carried out before 2013.
The Chancellor of Justice Indrek Teder is convinced that the immunity of the members of the Riigikogu Mr. Lauri Laasi and Mr. Priit Toobal were unconstitutionally violated when searches of their premises in the frame of a criminal case were conducted without the consent of the Riigikogu.
Indrek Teder argues that the provision of the Treaty Establishing the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) which in exceptional cases allows decisions on the provision of stability support to a Member of the ESM to be adopted by means of the so-called emergency voting procedure is contrary to the Estonian Constitution. The core feature of the emergency voting procedure is that, instead of using a regular voting mechanism based on mutual agreement (i.e. unanimity), a decision is adopted if a qualified majority of 85% of the votes cast endorse the decision.