The Committee is delighted to announce that the winner of the Richard Turton Award 2012 is Edvins Draba from Latvia. Edvins currently works for Bunkus Law Firm as anassociate. He gained his Master’s degree in Law at the University of Latvia, Faculty of Law. Edvins is highly involved in the activities of the Association of Latvian Certified Insolvency Proceedings Administrators and has also contributed an article to Eurofenix and assisted with the glossary of insolvency terms for Latvia for INSOL Europe.

As part of the award Edvins is invited to attend the INSOL Europe Conference due to be held on the 11-14 October 2012 in Brussels, Belgium. He will be writing a paper that will be published in summary in one or more of the Member Associations’ journals and in full on their websites. We would like to congratulate Edvins for his excellent application and also thank all the candidates who applied for the award this year. There were many excellent submissions and the judges task was particularly difficult this year.

Edvins Draba's award- winning article in full.