Analitics

The “Lawyer” magazine published an interview with Yury Pilipenko, Managing Partner of the Law Firm "YUST", where he tells about the interference of the law-enforcement bodies with the advocacy, about the perspectives of the advocate’s monopoly, success fees, the court dispute between the State Duma and the grandson of Josef Stalin, and also about the books he would recommend for reading.

Last year, the lawmakers corrected and expanded the provisions of the Labour Code of the Russian Federation seven times. This work will go on in 2013, since the deputies were not able to discuss many draft laws, which they had planned to last fall. Some novations in discussion have not yet received the status of draft laws, but should they be adopted, they may seriously affect the nature of the labour relations in the future. The publication in the “Economy and Life” newspaper (issue No. 50, December of 2012) has been drawn up on the basis of the materials, including those provided by Tatiana Samarina, Senior Lawyer of the Law Firm "YUST".

The article “On amendments to the Advocate’s Code of Professional Ethics” by Yury Pilipenko, Managing Partner of the Law Firm "YUST", was published in No. 1/2013 of the “Law and Right” scientific magazine. The material is dedicated to the most widely discussed suggestions of amendments to the Advocate’s Code of Professional Ethics. In particular, the possibility of bringing advocates to disciplinary liability for their deeds outside the framework of their professional activity is considered, the necessity to establish the Ethics Committee of the Federal Chamber of Advocates is explained, the expansion of the disciplinary liability measures regarding the advocates is justified.

An article by Mikhail Chugunov, Lawyer of the Law Firm "YUST", was published in the issue No. 23 of the “Novaya Advokaskaya Gazeta (New Advocate’s Newspaper)”. The author explains, how the Resolution by the Higher Court of Arbitration of Russia No. 16533/11 influenced the judicial practice on the matters of pledge of a leased object.

Tatiana Samarina, Senior Lawyer of the Law Firm "YUST", told the readers of the “Bankovskoe Obozrenie (Banking Survey)” of a precedent ruling made the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation in 2012 on the case of restoration of a dismissed employee to her workplace.

The article “Perspectives of implementation of the social patronage as a legal institution of juvenile justice in the Russian Federation” was published in the “Yuridicheskiy Mir (Juridical World)” (No. 10, 2012). Ekaterina Shestakova, Lawyer of the Law Firm "YUST", is the author of the article.

An article by Advocate Tatiana Starikova, Head of Private Clients Practice of the Law Firm "YUST", under the headline “Restoration of the parent’s rights – at the court’s discretion?..” was published in the “Sudia (Judge)” magazine (No. 11, 2012). The author of the article explains in detail the current court practice on the cases of restoration of parent’s rights, including the matters of jurisdiction, the child’s right to express his opinion in such disputes, the role of guardianship and tutelage bodies etc.

The Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitration and Procedural Legislation of the State Duma prepared the draft Federal Law on amendments to the Civil Code of the Russian Federation for the second reading. The draft, as submitted by the Committee, contains the unmodified corporate agreement provisions, which had caused so much argument. A compromise has apparently been reached. But has it? And what will actually change in the Russian corporate practice, when the new CCRF provisions on corporate agreements are adopted? Will corporate agreements actually function or will they remain a more or less “advanced” fiction? Evgeny Zhilin Associated Partner of the Law Firm "YUST", gave RAPSI the answers to these and other questions.

The book “See you in court. 7 scenarios of conflict dismissals with the evaluation of the employer’s risks” was published under the auspices of the “Labour Disputes” magazine (“Aktion-Media” Publishing Group). Advocate Аnna Kotova-Smolenskaya, Doctor at Law, Associated Partner of the Law Firm "YUST"; Tatiana Samarina, Doctor at Law, Senior Lawyer of the Firm; Vladimir Starovoytov, Lawyer of the Firm, were the co-authors of the chapter “Dismissal of the employee for the reason of expiry of the employment contract”.

An interview with Advocate Maxim Rovinskiy, Head of Tax and Customs Law Practice of the Law Firm "YUST", on how to receive interest for late repayment of taxes by a tax inspectorate, was published in “Novaya Buhgalteriya (New Accountability)” (No. 10, October of 2012).