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Dispute Resolution
In October 2017 Anna Tsirat said on Espreso TV that the judicial reform would bring consistency. Eight years on: arbitration cases were funnelled into the appellate courts, while foreign court…
Dispute Resolution
UNCITRAL is the UN body that drafts international trade law. Three of its instruments already bind Ukraine: the Model Law behind the 1994 arbitration act, the 1958 New York Convention,…
Contract Structuring
A forum clause is not a choice of law. What the 2015 Hague Principles say about splitting, connection and severability — and why a Ukrainian court and an arbitral tribunal…
Dispute Resolution
Ukraine has had the derivative action since 1 May 2016, and it still works — but every article number written about it then is wrong now. Article 54 of the…
Dispute Resolution
The 2005 Hague Choice of Court Convention has bound Ukraine since 1 August 2023 — twenty-five months after ratification. Why that gap decides whether a clause signed in 2022 works…
Dispute Resolution
A developer built eight residential floors instead of the permitted attic storeys, next to the National Art Museum in Kyiv. On 16 June 2015 the court annulled the conformity certificates…
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