October 23 Main results of the day

The Shcherbinsky District Court of Moscow satisfied the Bank’s claims to collect debt under loan agreements in the amount of more than 20 million rubles from the former chairman of the board. Despite the constant attempts of the representative of the procedural opponent to delay the consideration of the case, the court refused all the petitions, including the postponement and reclamation of evidence, and preceded to the consideration of the case on the merits. During the trial, lawyers of the Bureau of Lawyers “De jure” managed to prove that being under house arrest (the debtor is a defendant in a criminal case related to his work at a Bank) is not a force majeure circumstance that allows the Debtor to be released from fulfilling his obligations to the creditor. The Bank’s interests were represented in court by Ekaterina Bulygina, senior lawyer of the Bureau of Lawyers “De jure”.

The Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region satisfied three claims of the Principal of the Bureau of Lawyers “De jure” to recover the debt for the completed finishing works in the total amount of over 23 million rubles. The Defendant was challenging the quality of the work performed, referring to the pre-trial demand that he was required to eliminate the deficiencies. He filed a petition in court to conduct a construction and technical examination to establish the quality of the work, additionally referred to the discrepancy in data on the volume of work in the KS-2 acts and asked to reduce the claimed penalty due to disproportionality. But the lawyers of the Bureau of Lawyers “De jure” managed to refute the arguments of the procedural opponent and justify the absence of grounds for the appointment of expertise and reduction of the penalty. As a result of numerous questions of the court, asked during the consideration of claims, voicing the position, the court, composed of different judges considering cases, agreed with the position of the Bureau and satisfied all three claims in full. As a result, it was possible to avoid reducing the debt collected from the customer by the court for the work performed, despite the presence of a small amount of poorly performed work recognized as such by the Principal. The interests of the Principal were represented by Maria Ovchinnikova, Head of the Department of Legal Support of Contractual and Judicial Work of the Bureau of Lawyers “De jure”.