DISPUTING TRANSACTIONS IN A RUSSIAN COURT IN THE FRAMEWORK OF FOREIGN BANKRUPTCY

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-218
Author(s):  
A.A. KOSTIN
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Legal Capacity ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Bankruptcy Procedure ◽  
Separate Line ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Law

​ The article addresses the special features of avoidance transactions of a foreign insolvent debtor for alienation of property within Russian Federation. The author argues that the power of the foreign insolvency administrator to bring a claim to challenge the transaction stems from the Arts. 1195–1197 and 1202 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation regarding the law applicable to the legal capacity of a person. On the separate line the article discusses the issue of law applicable to challenging of various categories of transactions of a foreign debtor. Based on the analysis of the doctrine and judicial practice, the author comes to the conclusion that transactions concluded by a foreign debtor after the introduction of a bankruptcy procedure may be challenged in a Russian court on the basis of the limitation of the legal capacity of a foreign person (Arts. 1195–1197 and 1202 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation). At the same time, foreign bankruptcy legislation cannot be applied to avoidance of real estate transactions concluded before the introduction of bankruptcy procedure against a foreign debtor due to paragraph 2 of Art. 1213 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. The article is concluded with an analysis of the issue of jurisdiction of the claim for challenging the transaction of a foreign insolvent debtor.

scholarly journals SOME ASPECTS OF THE PROTECTION OF CIVIL RIGHTS OF REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATIONS

2020 ◽  
pp. 168-185
Author(s):  
Anna V. Pushkina ◽  
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Tatyana S. Sayapina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
General Nature ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Legal Form ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right

Today, consideration of ways to protect the civil rights of various subjects of civil law relations is of particular importance in civilist studies. One of the results of the reform of civil legislation on legal entities in 2014 was the emergence of a new legal form of organization -partnership of property owners. Therefore, it is important to consider in detail the main ways to protect the civil rights of this legal entity. It is not possible to consider all ways of protecting civil rights in one article. In this con-nection, only some of the most common methods of protecting the civil rights of real estate partnerships have been investigated, namely: recognition of the right; restoration of the posi-tion that existed before the violation of the right and suppression of actions that violate the right or threaten to violate it; invalidation of the transaction and application of the consequences of its invalidity, application of the consequences of a void transaction. The method of protection, such as recognition of the right, is often used by real estate as-sociations. And in this method, both an application for recognition of a right to be present and an application for recognition of a right to be absent are possible. The question of the applica-bility of the statute of limitations to this method is a matter of discussion. It seems that in most cases it is possible to apply the statute of limitations to claims for recognition of a right. The general nature of this method was revealed by examining the restoration of the situa-tion that existed before the violation of the right and the prevention of actions that violate the right or threaten to violate it. Usually, when such demands are made, the courts ask to specify them. And only in rare cases where no other protective measures are applied, do the courts allow for the possibility of submitting a direct request to restore the situation that existed be-fore the violation of the right. The third way of protecting the civil rights of property associations was significantly changed in 2013. Thus, the rule of Article 168 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation on the nullity of a transaction that does not comply with the law has been fundamentally re-formed, unless the law establishes other consequences. Such a transaction is now considered void. The possibility of claims for invalidation of a void transaction has also been established by law. Previously, the courts allowed such claims, but in the doctrine the question of the possibility of such claims was debatable, since the Civil Code of the Russian Federation did not mention them.

scholarly journals Prevention of Damage to the Environment in the Regional Judicial Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
Tatyana V. Letuta ◽  
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Elena V. Mischenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Legal Institution ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Law ◽  
Damage Prevention

The article proposes the author`s approach to the solution of the issue of the efficiency of the use of the damage prevention institution in practice. The authors review the regional practice of application of administrative suspension, civil law termination and prohibition of activities of environmental law breachers. Various protection means are compared. The authors conclude that administrative suspension of activities aimed at fulfillment of its main function of interception of environmental offenses requires the law to be supplemented in terms of cases on the need for immediate offense repression. The paper justifies the expediency of application of the presumption of offender`s guilt in effect in respect of other misdeeds provided in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. Prevention of damage to the environment as a complex legal institution needs its implementation mechanisms to be improved in practice.

Compensation for Infringement of Copyright and Related Rights: Essence and Primary Functions

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 34-40
Author(s):  
N. V. Buzova ◽  
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R. L. Lukyanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Legal Remedy ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Judicial Protection ◽  
Exclusive Right

The Civil Code of the Russian Federation provides an opportunity to the rightholder in case of infringement of his exclusive copyright and related rights to demand in court instead of compensation for damages incurred by him to pay compensation. In most cases, when the rightholder applies for judicial protection of his violated rights, he requires the recovery of compensation. This article discusses the legal nature of compensation as a legal remedy of an exclusive right and its primary functions. When writing an article, a comparative law research method is used. As a result of the analysis of russian and foreign legislation, as well as judicial practice, it was found that compensation, in addition to restorative, also has a preventive function and can be considered an analogue of statutory damages.

Scientific Commentary on the Review of Judicial Practice on Some Issues of the Application of Legislation on Business Entities

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
V. K. Andreev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
Law Making

The article discusses the forms of clarification on matters of judicial practice by the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, the Presidium of the Supreme Court, as well as in the Review of judicial practice on some issues of the application of legislation on business companies dated December 25, 2019. Clarifications of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on issues of judicial practice are characterized as the positions of the courts identified in the course of studying and summarizing the judicial practice of the corresponding category of cases, which are acts of individual regulation of public relations. Focusing on Art. 6 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and Section 6, Art. 12 of the APC RF shows the validity of dividing wrong into two types of wrong: the «moderate» type of «judicial law-making and the position of the court» and the «radical» type of «judicial law-making», when the court develops the rule of law, which contradicts the constitutional principle of separation of powers. When resolving corporate disputes, it is necessary to investigate whether the charter of a non-public company does not contain the rights and obligations of its participants, which they themselves created by making a unanimous decision and including them in the charter of the company (paragraph 3 of Art. 66.3 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, paragraph 3 of Art. 14 of the Law about LLC).

Legal Regulation of Adjudication in Civil Code of the Russian Federation (Issues of Conflict Rules)

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Татьяна Лазарева ◽  
Tatyana Lazaryeva
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Conflict Of Laws ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Law ◽  
Contractual Obligations ◽  
Rome I

The article deals with conflict of laws regulation of transfer of creditor’s rights to another person (assignment of claims (cessions) and transfer of rights under the law) in terms of amendments to Part III of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. The author notes that though amendments to the separate article on cession are not fundamental, the amendments of other articles of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, concerning contractual obligations, do influence regulation of relations between the parties in assignment. The article pays special attention to the new conflict of law rule regulating the transfer of the creditor’s rights under the law. Relevant court practice is analyzed. On the basis of comparing legislations of specific countries, as well as norms of EC No. 593/2008 (‘‘Rome I’’) Regulation and EC No. 864/2007 (‘‘Rome II’’) Regulation the author draws the conclusion that despite some differences in conflict of laws regulation of the transfer of the creditor’s rights, in general the Russian rules comply with modern trends in private international law in the majority of European countries.

scholarly journals CONTRACTUAL BASIS FOR TERMINATION OF CIVIL LEGAL OBLIGATIONS: PROBLEMS OF THEORY AND PRACTICE OF APPLICATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 1054-1058
Author(s):  
N.V. Kuznetsova
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Freedom Of Contract ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
Problematic Issue ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article considers contractual grounds for termination of civil obligations: compensation, innovation, debt forgiveness. The paper notes some problems of the application of Articles 409, 414, 415 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation in judicial practice, analyzes the issues of the ratio of compensation and innovation, the differentiation of these contracts. The problems of qualification of agreements on the grounds for termination of obligations in law enforcement practice and the question of applying the principle of freedom of contract to the relations under consideration are considered. It is noted that at present the practice of applying the legislation on compensation has changed significantly. Despite the restrictions established by the norm of Article 409 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, judicial practice allows the possibility of using works and services as a subject of compensation, which leads to problems of distinguishing such contractual grounds for termination of obligations as compensation and innovation. With regard to the innovation, an analysis of the provisions on the possibility of novating the penalty into a loan obligation is given. A problematic issue is the legal qualification of debt forgiveness as a basis for termination of an obligation. It is noted that the contractual nature of debt forgiveness should be taken into account. Acceptance of notification by the debtor's creditor of his release from the performance of his duty is the silence of the debtor (clause 2 of Article 438 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation). The article also considers the question of the ratio of debt forgiveness and donation. The analysis of judicial practice shows that the courts do not consider debt forgiveness as a gift, except in cases when the creditor released the debtor from the performance of the obligation free of charge. In this case, the norms of Article 168 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and paragraph 4 of Article 575 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation are subject to the application of debt forgiveness.

scholarly journals An Alternative View of the Legal Regulation of Civil Law Relations in the Digital Economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 52-62
Author(s):  
L. G. Efimova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Electronic Document ◽  
Digital Rights ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Law

The paper substantiates the author’s proposal to amend the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, which is explained by the gradual creation of a digital economy in the Russian Federation. In particular, the author has examined and solved the following problems of the legal regulation of civil law relations in the context of digitalization: the problem of identifying the object of digital rights, the problem of legal qualification of the electronic form of the transaction, the problem of using a smart contract in civil transactions, the problem of using blockchain technology to create mixed payment systems. The paper proposes a non-standard solution to each of these problems—the author has prepared a draft federal law "On Amendments to Parts One and Two of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation in terms of legal relations arising in cyberspace." In particular, the author proposes to define digital rights as the absolute and relative rights to digital property named in this capacity, the content and conditions of implementation of which are determined by the law and the rules of the information system (protocol) that meets the characteristics established by the law. In the author’s opinion, an electronic document can exist in the form of a machine information file of any format or a computer program that meets the characteristics of an electronic document.

scholarly journals NOVELTIES OF PART III OF THE CIVIL CODE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: ISSUES AND SOLUTIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 20-23
Author(s):  
Tatyana L. Kalacheva ◽  
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Natalya S. Makharadze ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
Inheritance Law ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Creation

The article examines new legal institutions of inheritance law, which are legal institutions associated with the creation and operation of the inheritance fund, the execution of a joint will and the conclusion of an inheritance contract. The authors determine the prospects for their relevance, problematic aspects, ways to solve them, analyzing examples of judicial practice.

scholarly journals Responsibility of Individuals Managing a Legal Entity

Lex Russica ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 30-38
Author(s):  
Yu. A. Meteleva
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Causal Link ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Legal Entity ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Judicial Proceedings ◽  
The Russian Federation

The problem of liability of persons managing a legal entity was raised in Russian civil law after the adoption of legislation on joint-stock companies. At the beginning, it was more theoretical in nature, since the civil legislation did not contain any mechanisms for the implementation of such liability. To date, due to the reform of the Civil Code and changing approaches in jurisprudence, disputes concerning property liability of directors have formed a considerable category of cases. The paper analyzes the elements of such civil wrongs as damage caused to a legal entity by persons who are members of the managerial boards and are able to exercise a significant impact on such boards. All elements of the civil wrong under consideration are being analyzed: the act, the consequences (damage), the causal link between the act and the consequences, and the fault of the wrong-doer. The paper also elucidates the participants involved in such disputes. Exploring specific court cases, the author shows which acts of directors are recognized by the courts as illegal, what restrictions are expressed in the legal standings of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation to qualify as illegal different acts of directors and other persons. In the vast majority of cases of this category, persons exercising the functions of the sole executive body are prosecuted. Sometimes they are also the participants at the same time. The scope of persons covered by the term “determining the acts of a legal entity” is not defined in the law, which also hampers judicial practice. Judicial proceedings bringing such persons to justice are exceptional. Therefore, the author proposes to define in the Civil Code all persons who can commit an act and thereby cause damage to a legal entity. In addition, it is proposed to establish criteria of unreasonableness and dishonesty of actions of directors and other persons.

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