VII WEST-UKRAINIAN LEGAL FORUM

DAY 1, 1 June 2017, Thursday

Passage Gartenberg (3 Nezalezhnosti Street, Ivano-Frankivsk)

12:30–13:00

Registration. Welcoming Remarks

Session 1

Judicial Kit: The Key Ingredients of the Justice Reform

Moderator – Denys Bugay, President of the Ukrainian Bar Association, Partner at VB PARTNERS

13:00–14:40

Stanislav Shevchuk, Judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (invited)

Sergiy Verlanov, Member of the Public Council of Integrity, Partner at Sayenko Kharenko

Andriy Savchuk, Member of the Public Council of Integrity, Partner at Moris Group

• Competition to the Supreme Court and courts of first jurisdiction
• The High Council of Justice and the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine, as a center of judicial life
• Reform of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine

14:40–15:10

Coffee Break

Session 2

Reforms of Our Days: How to Enforce Judgement and Teach Future Generation

Moderator – Andriy Romanchuk, Managing Partner atMoris Group

15:10–16:40

Sergiy Shklyar, Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine on Enforcement Service,

Private Enforcement Officer

Ivan Horodyskyy, Director of the Rule of Law Center at the Ukrainian Catholic University

• Reform of the Enforcement System of Ukraine

• Reform of the Legal Education

16:40–17:10

Coffee Break

Session 3

New Procedural Codes: Revolution or Eviolution?

Moderator – TBC

17:10–18:40

Volodymyr Kravchuk, Judge at Lviv District Administrative Court

Speakers TBC

• Code of Administrative Procedure
• Commercial Procedure Code
• Code of Civil Procedure

19:00–21:00

EVENING FORTRESS RECEPTION

Fortress Gallery Bastion (1 Fortechniy Provulok, Ivano-Frankivsk)

Among the guests – Juriy Andrukhovych, famous poet, prosaic.

Musical Mood – Academic Chamber Orchestra Harmonia nobile and Art Installation City in a Cube

VII WEST-UKRAINIAN LEGAL FORUM

DAY 2, 2 June 2017, Friday

Passage Gartenberg (3 Nezalezhnosti Street, Ivano-Frankivsk)

08:30–09:00

Registration. Welcoming Coffee

09:00–09:30

Special Report on: Civil Code for Galicia (and Bukovina) 1797 

Speaker – Marian Martynyuk, Partner at Moris Group

Session 4

Effective Procedural and Non-Procedural Communication: Opportunities and Challenges

Moderator - Valeriya Kolomiets, Partner at Bachynsliy Kolomiets and Partners

09:30–10:30

Ruslan Vakhitov, Deputy Attorney of Ivano-Frankivsk region

Andriy Vyshnevskiy, Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine

Lyudmila Zheliznyak, lawyer

Nadiya Stefaniv, Judge at Court of Appeal of Ivano-Frankivsk Region

• Non-Procedural Communication and the Rules of Ethics. Burning Issues
• Non-Procedural Pressure on Courts and Law Enforcement Agencies. Ways to Overcome the Illegal Influence.  
• Easy Lawyers – Problems of Ethics and Purity of the Profession
• Possible and Ethical Forms and Ways of Interaction of the Judicial Stakeholders etc.

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

Session 5

Investment Climate – Legal Aspects

Moderator – Markiyan Malskiy, Partner at Arzinger

11:00-11:20

Oksana Kumanska-Nor, Deputy Chief of State Registration - Head of State Registration of the Main Territorial Department of Justice in the Lviv Region

Novelties of Anti-Raider Legislation in the Sphere of Civil Registration

11:20-11:40

Olena Volianska, Council at LCF

Changes in Currency Regulation and Currency Control

11:40-12:00

Ivan Lischyna, Government Agent for the ECHR

The Latest Practice of ECHR Against Ukraine. Recent Trends

12:00-12:20

Speaker to be confirmed

Novelties of Labor Legislation, Changes in Compliance Audit of Penalties for Violation of Labor Law

12:30–13:30

Lunch

14:00-16:30

Transfer to Bukovel Radisson Blu Resort

17:30–19:30

LEGAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UKRAINIAN BAR ASSOCIATION

Radisson Blu Resort, Bukovel

• Report on the Activities of the UBA Management
• Election of the New President  Vise-President and the Board

19:30

PRESIDENTIAL RECETION

Radisson Blu Resort, Bukovel

• Announcement of the results of the elections
• The ceremonial transfer of powers

Party till Dawn

• Cover Band “Remake” and local DJ set performance

3 DAY, 3 June, Saturday

Bukovel, Polyanitsya Village

11:00-17:00

Meeting the Hutsul, eating banos, domestic cheeses

Free time, entertainment