Jüri Rätsep

Jüri Rätsep (3 July 1935 1 August 2018) was an Estonian lawyer, politician and judge.[1]

Jüri Rätsep (2012)

He graduated in 1956 from the Elva Workers' High School and in 1961 from the Law Faculty of the University of Tartu. He worked as a researcher and assistant prosecutor in the Viljandi Prosecutor's Office from 1961 to 1966; Since 1966 he was a lawyer in Viljandi's legal counsel and he was a member of the Estonian Bar Association.[2][3]

From 1990 to 1992 he was member of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Estonia, he was a member of the press commission and vice chairman of the Ethics Committee. On August 20, 1991, he voted for the restoration of the Republic of Estonia. He was also a member of the I and II Committees of the Estonian Committee and its board member; as well as from 1991 to 1992 as a member of the Constitutional Assembly. From 1988 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Sakala County Popular Front.[4]

From August 11, 1993 to February 14, 2002, he was a judge of the Supreme Court.[5]

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