RIGA - The minister of justice was supposed to praise the results of a recent conference on Baltic and Nordic legal cooperation to reporters on Nov. 5.Instead, Valdis Birkavs spent much of his time pointing out the problems and needs for Latvia's legal system, which range from a poorly-designed legal aid process to a greater degree of judicial independence."A good and intelligent judge is better than a good law because the judge will make a just sentence. But where there is a bad and malicious judge, a good law won't help to make a just sentence," said Birkavs. "The problem is not in the la...
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