In Latvia, you, your representative or your attorney-at-law can regularly ask the investigative judge, or the court if the trial has started, to consider whether the grounds and the need to keep you in a mental health care institution for a forensic psychiatric assessment still persist. 

Investigative judge or the court

In certain cases, the review has to be initiated by the investigative judge or the court itself.

The Criminal Procedure Law explains in more detail who can initiate and conduct the review of a decision on your placement in a mental health care institution, when it can be done, and how. 

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Last updated 21/03/2024