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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.