Solving the dispute, the appellate court agreed with the arguments of the Bureau’s attorney Anna Ivanova that the only prosecutor and other authorized bodies in according with the Federal law have the right to sue on the demolition of unauthorized construction, in particular the Department of Cultural Heritage, if the construction works are implemented on a cultural heritage or its territory. The Court also noted that, as a result of the construction work does not create a new property, the work can not be considered unauthorized construction.
Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow dropped criminal charges against the Bureau’s client, advocate Murad Musaev charged with interference with justice during hearings on the case of murder of Yury Budanov, Russian Army Colonel.
In proceedings before the Arbitrazh Court of the City of Moscow, the Bureau’s attorney was able to prove that the building was erected with the Client’s own means, is not unauthorised construction, and succeeded in convincing the Court that the Client had no opportunity to undertake the full commissioning into operation procedure as required by the law.
After the Bureau attorney won a case pleaded before the Higher Arbitrazh Court, arbitration tribunals effectively lost the power to resolve disputes arising from contracts with government and municipal entities, as well as disputes relating to invalidation of such transactions.
On July 21, 2014 important changes to some of the legislative acts of the Russian Federation have been introduced in relation to specification of terms for processing personal data in information and telecommunication networks.
The Law Office “Padva and Partners” is pleased to inform all of its partners and clients that one of our offices has moved to the Moscow City business area.
The Plenum of the Higher Arbitrazh Court of Russia issued on 18 July 2014 Ruling № 50 "On peaceful settlement between parties in arbitrazh proceedings". The purpose of the Court’s explanations is to encourage businessmen to resolve their disputes out of court, with minimum time and effort. In its recommendations, the Court is acting on the assumption that honest and reasonable civil parties are interested in agreeing and converging their interests in order to maintain a stable and mutually favourable business environment.
The Law Office “Padva & Partners” is preparing documents for taking part in the fifth annual rating of law firms of «Pravo.Ru-300». Year by year more and more law firms and attorneys at law, including foreign law firms, participate in the ranking.