The Presidium of the Russian Supreme Commercial Court is set to hear the first case in a while directly dealing with the enforcement of a foreign court judgment. The central issue is the following: can a Russian court assess the reasonableness of a foreign court’s decision to exercise jurisdiction in ruling on whether to recognise […]
ICDR Young and International announced its fourth annual event in Russia: ICDR Y&I Seminar for Young Practitioners – “Two Rapid-Fire Discussions on International Arbitration and Mediation”. CIS Arbitration Forum is a media sponsor of the event. The event is organized in cooperation with the American Bar Association’s Section of International Law, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of […]
Remington Worldwide Limited v Ukraine is interesting not only as the first arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (the “ECT”) conducted in Russian. It also reasserts the importance of a fundamental aspect of the rule of law – the principle of legal certainty. The case demonstrates how far-reaching the effects of the application of the exceptions from […]
Lithuanian leading natural gas company Lietuvos Dujos is in the centre of a number of litigations and arbitrations between Gazprom and Lithuania, which are both shareholders in the company. Gazprom is challenging Lithuania’s recent regulations requiring Lietuvos Dujos to divest its gas transit assets as a breach of the bilateral investment treaty between the Russian Federation and […]
As we reported back in May 2011 the Russian Constitutional Court has confirmed that disputes relating to the transfer of title to immovable property are arbitrable, as well as other disputes of an essentially private law nature. The decree rendered by the Constitutional Court resulted from a July 2010 request of the Presidium of the Russian Supreme Commercial Court […]
The Presidium of the Supreme Commercial Court will clarify which of a respondent’s actions may evidence implicit acceptance of an arbitral tribunal’s jurisdiction.online pharmacy https://bergenderm.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/jpeg/lexapro.html no prescription drugstore The case which will be heard by the court in October focuses on the respondent’s constantly changing position as to the jurisdiction of the arbitral tribunal. Though […]
On 1 June 2012 the Ukrainian general court of first instance granted the request of JSC BTA Bank for the recognition of the Freezing Order of the English Court issued in the BTA Bank v Ablyazov and others proceedings (the “Order” and the “BTA Bank case” respectively). The ruling of the Ukrainian court in the BTA Bank case is […]
As we reported earlier two levels of Russian courts have recognised and enforced a High Court judgment on the basis of reciprocity. Now in a ruling released on Friday a three-judge panel of the Supreme Commercial Court refused the respondent’s petition to have these decisions reconsidered. The panel’s ruling restates the lower court’s position that the […]
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