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THE SUPREME COURT ALLOWED THE LAWYER'S SPOUSE TO COLLECT THE EXPENSES FOR HIS SERVICES

... (No. 117-KG20-3-K4). The woman demanded to recognize her right to recover the costs of paying for the legal services of her attorney from the losing side. The difficulty lay in the fact that the role of the attorney was performed by her own husband, a lawyer, and the courts of all previous instances stubbornly rejected her claim, arguing their decision by the presence of family relations between the participants in the civil process. One of the district courts of Sevastopol received a statement of claim from Inessa ...

LAWYER FINED FOR JOKING ABOUT DIA

... and demanded that the lawyer be held accountable in the form of a court fine, since his statements contradict the norms of the Arbitration Procedural Code (APC) of the Russian Federation and fundamentally violate the Code of Professional Ethics of a lawyer. The courts of three instances agreed with this position. The lawyer was found guilty of contempt of court and participants in the process and fined 2,000 rubles. Photo: Freepik

A lawyer from Voronezh city received 2 years of suspended sentence over a fraud

... deceived a 44-year-old victim and received 150 thousand rubles, promising that the decision on the division of property in a civil case would be made in favor of the client (the litigation with her husband for the rights to the apartment). In reality, the lawyer could not influence the court's decision. The woman handed Tupikova 50 thousand rubles at once - allegedly the money was necessary so that the judge ‘could make the right decision’. The client promised to give Tupikova 100 thousand more after the trial. As a result, the court ...

ARE WE SUING IN DUBAI? AYUR TOLD ABOUT THE PROS AND CONS OF DIAC IN THE CONDITIONS OF SANCTIONS

... the question of finding a new arbitration institute for the Russian business community. Under the current conditions, with a large number of sanctions measures, Daria Krivintsova, a representative of the Krasnodar regional branch of the Association of Lawyers of Russia, notes that the Dubai International Arbitration Center (DIAC) is a good alternative for protecting rights, but not without its drawbacks. With the change in external conditions, the criteria for choosing arbitration also change, ...

Persons without legal education will have a chance to participate in bankruptcy proceedings

... acquainted with the case materials for non-lawyers remains an urgent problem. Legislation (first of all, the APC of the Russian Federation), as you know, allows only persons with higher legal education, candidates and doctors of legal sciences, as well as lawyers to be representatives in court. It would seem that following the law excludes the possibility for participants in the process to seek help from people who do not have the appropriate educational status. However, considering possible exceptions for this legal institution, the ...

A resident of Hungary jumped under a train in the hope of getting € 2.8-million insurance

... with insurance. A 54-year-old Sandor Ch. has received two years of suspended sentence and will have to pay the costs of legal proceedings in the amount of € 5.5 thousand. At the same time, the man himself plans to appeal the decision of the central court of Pest and protect the reputation of a good citizen. The events took place back in 2014. The investigation of the case, which lasted 7 years, concluded that the man jumped under the wheels of a train on purpose, intending to receive insurance payments....

FORTES COMPANY GOES BANKRUPT DUE TO THE MISUSE OF THE ‘AWAITER’ MEME

The Arbitration court of Moscow recognized bankruptcy of the Fortes company insolvent due to a debt of 5 million rubles. The initiator of the claim was the Ci Land Contact firm, to which the defendant did not pay the compensation set by the court as a sanction for infringement ...

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