A lawsuit to appeal the decision of the village council on approval of town planning documentation (general plan of the village), which has the characteristics of a normative legal act, can be filed both by persons to whom this decision was applied and by persons who are the subject of legal relations in which it […]
During 2023, 100 criminal proceedings were opened based on information about crimes against lawyers. However, none of them were brought to court with an indictment, and no suspect was announced to any person. And this may indicate unspoken sabotage by the prosecutor’s office and pre-trial investigation. This conclusion was reached by the NAAU Committee on […]
July 18, 2023 The Supreme Court, by the panel of judges of the First Judicial Chamber of the Criminal Court of Cassation in case No. 192/1350/19, satisfied the cassation appeal of the prosecutor, who challenged the decisions of the courts, which declared the results of secret investigative (search) actions as inadmissible evidence. The verdict of […]
If a lawyer has to wait for the judges to start considering his case in the Cassation Commercial Court of the Supreme Court, then he can hope that he will be paid for such a wait. The relevant position was expressed by the Cassation Economic Court of the Supreme Court in the additional resolution dated […]
When deciding the distribution of court costs, the court does not take into account when the expert opinion was ordered and the expert’s opinion was obtained (before or after the plaintiff filed a claim with the court), but whether these costs are directly related to the consideration of the case. The Grand Chamber of the […]
On January 11, 2024, a solemn meeting of the Committee for Veterans and Social Protection of Lawyers of the Bar Council of the Kyiv Region was held at the Rus Hotel. After congratulatory words from the chairman of the Council Petro Boyk , the chairman of the KDKA of the Kyiv region Volodymyr Polishchuk , […]
At present, the full-fledged implementation of mediation in Ukraine is an urgent topic. This is related to the possibility of settling disputes out of court and the need to relieve the courts in conditions of excessive stay of cases in court proceedings. The existence of the mediation institute is one of Ukraine’s ways to the […]
For the organization of reporting and taxation in Ukraine, there is a Classifier of types of economic activity. When starting a lawyer’s activity, during the registration of law offices and associations, you will have to decide on the correct areas of activity according to the KVED. The classifier systematizes the types of activities carried out […]
In all countries, lawyers in one way or another pay contributions to ensure the implementation of lawyer self-government. Somewhere they are bigger, somewhere smaller. Sometimes it depends on the region or the lawyer’s experience. Some bar associations introduce the possibility of installments. General information about the payment of the lawyer’s fee in different countries was […]
When starting a lawyer’s office or lawyer’s association, in the decision on its creation and the statute, you must specify information about the size of the authorized capital. What amount should be specified? According to part 2 Art. 9 of the Law “On State Registration of Legal Entities, Individuals – Entrepreneurs and Public Organizations” The […]
Please note that from January 1, 2024, in accordance with the Law of Ukraine “On Court Fees” and the Law of Ukraine “On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2024”, court fee rates will change. The Law of Ukraine “On Court Fees” defines that a court fee is a fee charged throughout the territory of […]
Dear lawyers! Ukraine welcomes the new 2024 year of the Dragon, the year of energy and fire. A fire in which all our enemies should burn! Let the power of this beast overcome all troubles and give you the pleasure of life. The passing year was difficult and difficult, but let’s be grateful for all […]
Today, the lawyer, deputy chairman of the Kyiv Region Bar Council, chairman of the Committee for the Protection of Guarantees of Legal Practice Civakov Leonid Mykolayovych is celebrating his birthday. Please accept our most sincere birthday wishes! We wish you good health, personal happiness, inexhaustible energy and enthusiasm in all your affairs. May peace and […]
In connection with the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine, the attention of practitioners and scientists is focused on committed war crimes and crimes against the foundations of the national security of our state. The issue of the need to amend the Criminal Code of Ukraine to strengthen criminal liability […]
Lawyers, law offices and bar associations become specially defined subjects of primary financial monitoring only when they accompany certain transactions. Therefore, they should ensure the organization and conduct of primary financial monitoring. The relevant provisions are contained in the Law “On prevention and counteraction of legalization (laundering) of proceeds obtained through crime, financing of terrorism […]
The constitutional right to rest is ensured, in particular, by granting annual leave. Its minimum duration, as well as other conditions for exercising this right, are determined by law. But self-employed persons, including lawyers, cannot exercise this right today. People’s deputies proposed to correct this situation in draft No. 10357 dated 18.12.2023 “On Amendments to […]
It seems that not so long ago, Advocacy Day was the main holiday of all lawyers. On this day, there were always jokes about the fact that St. Nicholas must visit the lawyers with obligatory gifts for the defenders. And the very meaning of the word “protector” was different. Without a military color, but certainly […]
Modern society needs an understanding of the principle of good faith. It would be much easier to live if this principle was observed by as many people as possible, and ideally by everyone. Good faith (Clause 6, Article 3 of the Civil Procedure Code of Ukraine) is a certain standard of behavior characterized by honesty, […]
Dear lawyers! We sincerely congratulate all of you on the Day of the Ukrainian Bar Association! In these difficult times, I would like to, at least for the first time, move away from officialdom and templates and talk about our lawyer’s memory. About the memory that preserves hundreds of articles of law, thousands of facts […]
KAS VS noted that, according to the content of para. 2 hours 8th century 18 of the Civil Code of Ukraine, persons who have registered official electronic addresses in EUITS, submit procedural and other documents, written and electronic evidence, perform other procedural actions in electronic form exclusively with the help of EUITS, using their own […]
