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“I was forced to choose a non-standard welcome speech at today’s General Bar Assembly in a non-standard situation for everyone and Lithuania,” I.Vėgėlė wrote after sharing the entry on his personal account.
“If in the past we necessarily used lawyers in the state administration, then in this symptomatic pandemic, we use economists and doctors.
In this cost-benefit analysis prepared by economists, there is no longer a model of legal regulation of society, according to which the degree of restriction of human rights and freedoms is evaluated in the context of the principles of reasonableness and proportionality of The restrictions.
We no longer seek scientific data to justify a particular restriction, we forget to weigh the legal proportionality of a particular restriction. We have even forgotten the basic legal acts of the state … ”- considered the president of the Bar Association.
The speech, which lasted almost 20 minutes, drew attention to human rights during the country’s emergency.
“Even a special legal status (emergency) grants the right to restrict a number of human rights and freedoms.
We no longer have the fundamental principles of the rule of law, we are losing the law itself: national and a series of international and EU laws.
The rights of the individual are overshadowed by the powers of the state. Due to a very simple and formal reason – “emergency situation”, I.Vėgėlė said.
