In 2014, our client (the largest Finnish supplier of cleaning supplies) and the official representative of the Russian Tests and Certification Center “ROSTEST-MOSCOW” in Saint-Petersburg (“BALT-TEST” LLC), entered into a contract to obtain certification for disinfectants. Our client planned to import said disinfectants to the territory of the Customs Union. “BALT-TEST” issued a Declarations of…
Aspectum. managed to once again defend the rights of the famous Russian composer Sergei Petrovich Banevich in the Moscow City Court. This time we challenged the appeal deadline recovery by the Presnensky District Court, which was initiated by our opponents to appeal the court decision that was in favor of the composer (Aspectum. client). Sergei…
Supervision and Preventive Work Department of the Office of Supervision and Preventive Work of the Main Department of EMERCOM in Saint-Petersburg filed a claim against “VARNOST” LTD represented by “Aspectum.” under part 4 of Article 14.1 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation to the Arbitration court of St.-Petersburg and Leningrad region (case number…
“Aspectum.” sponsored the “Sovereignty and its interpretation” conference hosted by the St.-Petersburg Institute of Foreign Economic Relations, Economics and Law on May 22-23, 2017. The conference was covered by “Works of the Russian Academy of Sciences State and Law Institute” magazine. The conference was attended by legal scholars and practicing lawyers from Britain, Canada, Hungary,…
Aspectum successfully appealed a claim in the Arbitration Court for the St.-Petersburg and Leningrad region to challenge the decision of the Baltic Customs (Turukhtanny Customs Post) on the adjustment of the goods customs value (КТС) (case A56-71254/2016). According to the June 22, 2016 decision of the Customs Authority, the customs value (ТС) of the goods…
A former employee of our client appealed to the Petrodvortsovy district court of St. Petersburg on a wrongful termination suit for the re-employment, the recovery of lost wages, non-pecuniary damage and attorney fees claim (Case number 2-652/17). The employee was dismissed in connection with layoff procedures as followed from the case materials. However, he filed…
We launched a young professionals internship program together with the HSE in Saint-Petersburg for law school students. HSE Law school 4th year students Evgenya Logvinova and Anna Welchinskaya were among the first participants of the program. They were invited to visit our law firm to receive valuable work experience by learning and from interactions with…
Mikhail Antonov and Kirill Belyakov, partners of Aspectum, together with Mr. Geert Corstens, ex-President of the Supreme Сourt of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Mr. Rutger Wery, a judge of the Сourt of Appeals of the district of Arnhem, the Netherlands, participated in the legal community meeting, which took place on December, 22nd 2016…
Our client was sued by their employee in the Vasileostrovsky District court of St. Petersburg for the recovery of overtime wages, including compensation for work on weekends and holidays, late wage payments, moral damages, and legal expenses. According to the case materials, the employer had established the Employee’s normal working hours under the Labor code…
The Law school of the University of Graz (Austria) hosted the international conference “EU Action and Global Justice” on November, 24-25, 2016. Aspectum partner Mikhail Antonov attended the conference and was a guest speaker on a report titled “Russian exceptionalism in human rights”. The participants discussed issues regarding the formation and improvement of justice mechanisms…
