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Yury Pilipenko, Managing Partner of the Law Firm "YUST", took part in the daily interactive program of the “Echo Moskvy” radio station. He discussed with the journalists the perspectives of implementation of the advocate’s monopoly to court representation in Russia.

With the support from Maxim Gorky Park of Culture and Recreation, on May 31st, on the Day of the Russian Advocacy, the Law Firm "YUST" opened at the Pioner cinema lot a public reception, where everyone who wanted to was able to receive a free qualified advice on a large number of matters.

While the method of surrogacy was developing, it gave birth to a much larger number of moral and legal problems than of medical ones. Of course, natural childbirth is absolutely necessary, but alternative methods and their regal governing also need to develop, and that development should be based on the principles of humaneness, reasonableness and fairness. Tatiana Starikova, Head of Private Practice of the Law Firm "YUST", shared her view on legislative suggestions set forth in the article “On the right of a surrogate mother to keep the born child” by advocate Dmitry Nikitin with the readers of the New Advocate’s Newspaper.

Alfiya Dausheva, Senior Lawyer of the Law Firm "YUST", gave the “Legal work in a credit organization” magazine (No. 2, 2013) a commentary, why the risk of that the cancellation of the entry of realty encumbrance will be contested in court cannot be excluded.

Yury Pilipenko, Managing Partner of the Law Firm "YUST", gave to the Russian Agency of legal and judicial information a commentary on the first package of the “anti-tobacco law”.

Anna Kotova-Smolenskaya, Associated Partner of the Law Firm "YUST", gave the PRIME Agency of economic information (RIA Novosti) a commentary on the situation, when Sergey Guriev refused to run for the new composition of the Supervisory Council of Sberbank.

The Law Firm "YUST", with the traditional support of AON Company, held a seminar for sports lawyers. The disputes between coaches and football clubs, positions of CAS, FIFA and Dispute Resolution Chamber were this year’s subjects. The Russian Agency of legal and judicial information was the chief information partner of the event.

The Russian Ministry of Finance voiced a sensational idea yesterday that all citizens be obliged to keep tax registers, inform the public officials of their property, calculate their own taxes and bear punishments for errors as well. Anton Siluanov, the head of the Ministry, confessed that the official were unable to collect reliable information on the owners of taxable property. The initiative of the Ministry will bring back the queues in the tax inspectorates and increase corruption. Also, it will enable the owners of the not-accounted for immovable property to evade taxes. Maxim Rovinskiy, head of the tax and customs law practice of the Law Firm "YUST", commented on the situation.

Two Central District Courts decided that the losing side was not to compensate for such costs, while the instance of appeal presented the following argument: the trustee status includes the ability to know his way about the profile legal matters, and he could therefore hire external counsel at his own risk. However, the judges of the supervisory instance had their own opinion on that issue. Arthur Rokhlin, Partner of the Law Firm "YUST", gave Pravo.RU portal a commentary on the situation.

The round table “Survey of changes to the Civil Code of Russia in connection with the adoption of the second set of amendments” was successfully held under the auspices of the Club of Comparative Legal Studies of the MGIMO University. Format of the event and the composition of the participants enabled the young scholars to exchange their views of the latest trends of law making activity with the practicians. Associate Mikhail Chugunov represented the Law Firm "YUST".