AC-2024-LON-0003395 - [2025] EWHC 2795 (Admin)

Fecha: 29-Oct-2025

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Judgment Approved by the court for handing down.

Sostaks and Igoniņs v. Latvia

Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWHC 2795 (Admin)

Case No: AC-2024-LON-0003395

Case No: AC-2024-LON-004016

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

KING'S BENCH DIVISION

ADMINISTRATIVE COURT

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Date: 29/10/2025

Before :

MR JUSTICE KERR

Between :

JANIS SOSTAKS

Appellant

- and –

TIMOFEJS IGOŅINS

- and –

Applicant

PROSECUTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, LATVIA

Respondent

James Meredith (instructed by Sperrin Law) for the Appellant, Mr Sostaks

Stefan Hyman (instructed by Hodge Jones and Allen) for the Applicant, Mr Igoņins

Amanda Bostock (instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service) for the Respondent

Hearing date: 7 October 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 3pm on 29 October 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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I direct that no official shorthand note shall be taken of this Judgment and that copies of this version as handed down at 3pm on 29 October 2025 may be treated as authentic.

Mr Justice Kerr :