Vice-Minister of Justice, Gabija Grigaitė-Daugirdė, participated in the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council, which places much emphasis on the search for new legal instruments in the context of Russia's military aggression in Ukraine. 

On 1 March, the Government approved the initiative of the Ministry of Justice to allocate additional 100,000 EUR to the International Criminal Court (ICC), which investigates war crimes and crimes against humanity and opened an investigation into the situation in Ukraine on 1 ...

Minister of Justice Ewelina Dobrowolska met with European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, who was on a visit Lithuania. The Minister focused on the issues of legal assistance to Ukraine under aggression and on international response to the crimes ...

At a meeting with the President of Eurojust, Ladislav Hamran, Minister of Justice Ewelina Dobrowolska discussed the new role of this institution in the context of the war in Ukraine and the importance of developing a legal mechanism to confiscate ...

A year ago, the justice community had festive aspects in mind when it was preparing to see the New Year in: the year 2022 marked the 100th anniversary of the first democratic Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania and the 30th anniversary of the currently valid ...

The EU Justice and Home Affairs Council taking place in Brussels is actively discussing legal mechanisms to ensure that the aggressors were forced to take responsibility and Ukraine and its people were awarded compensation for the damages.   

Today, Minister of Justice Ewelina Dobrowolska attended a joint meeting of the Lithuanian and Polish Governments which focused on the issues related to the implementation of assistance measures for Ukraine.

The Justice Ministers from Nordic and Baltic countries are meeting in Vilnius; the ministers’ discussion focused on the measures aimed at responding to the challenges posed by both the war in Ukraine and the pandemic in the Baltic and Nordic countries, i.e., the development of digitalisation and ...

Minister of Justice Ewelina Dobrowolska had a meeting with Sam Tanson, the Minister for Justice of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The meeting focused on the protection of minors during criminal proceedings and in penal institutions. Both countries have also placed LGBT rights high on ...

On 12 August, the Republic of Lithuania submitted an application to intervene as a third party in the case Ukraine v. Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). This case is before the ECHR on the basis of Ukraine's application of 23 June 2022 concerning gross and systematic violations of provisions of ...

Following Lithuania's formal application to intervene in the case Ukraine v. Russia at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the Minister of Justice Ewelina Dobrowolska stressed at a press conference that this step is particularly important because in this case charges are made against Russia, i.e., against the state but not against its ...

During a discussion at the Forum of Justice Leaders in Riga on what European leaders could do in order to not only stop the military aggression in Ukraine but also to rebuild the country, Vice-Minister of Justice Gabija Grigaitė-Daugirdė stressed the importance of finding legal mechanisms.