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VI JUDICIAL FORUM
JUSTICE SYSTEM OF TOMORROW: PERSPECTIVES, INNOVATIONS AND CHALLENGES
The Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA) invites you to a unique event - the VI Judicial Forum, which will be held on September 28-29, 2017 in Kyiv.
The UBA Judicial Forum is one of the most significant and most influential events of the year in the country's legal market.
This year's forum will offer you the new formats of presentations from recognized experts from Ukraine and abroad.
The event remains an excellent opportunity to meet with colleagues and friends, share experience and receive advice from top-notch experts.
The program coordinator of the event is Anna Ogrenchuk, a member of the Judicial Reform Council under the President of Ukraine, the Chairman of the UBA Committee on Procedural Law, Managing Partner at LCF.
For more detailed information about the event and the partnership opportunities, please contact the UBA Secretariat at tel: +380 (44) 492-88-48 or e-mail: events@uba.ua. Contact person - Viktoriia Krasnova.
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FIRST DAY PRELIMINARY PROGRAM 28 September 2017 (Thursday)
Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University - 60 Volodymyrska Street |
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13:00 13:30 |
Registration. Welcoming coffee |
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13:30 13:45 |
WELCOMING REMARKS
ANDRIY STELMASCHUK, President of the Ukrainian Bar Association, Managing Partner at Vasil Kisil & Partners ANNA OGRENCHUK, Member of the Judicial Reform Council under the President of Ukraine, Chairman of the UBA Committee on Procedural Law, Managing Partner at LCF MIKOLA ONISCHUK, Doctor of Law, rector of the National School of Judges of Ukraine, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine |
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13:45 14:30 |
KEYNOTE SPEECH Legal Education for the 21st Century: How to Educate a Competitive Lawyer? |
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Moderator: OLENA KIBENKO, Doctor of Law, Professor, Department of Civil Law, Kharkiv National University after V. Karazin, Managing Partner at Kibenko, Onika & Partners
Speaker: KIMMO NUOTIO, Doctor of Law, Professor of Criminal Law, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Helsinki University (Finland) |
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14:30 14:45 |
Q&A Session |
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14:45 15:15 |
Coffee Break |
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15:15 16:30 |
PUBLIC TALK Lawyer of a New World |
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Moderator: ANDRIY MELESHEVYCH, President of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine
Participants: IVAN MISCHENKO, Managing Partner at Trusted Advisors SERGIY ZHUKOV, Candidate of judicial sciences, lawyer, member of the Bar Commission, associate professor of the Department of Law and European Integration NADU under the President of Ukraine VIKTORIYA RYEZNIKOVA, Doct.Jud., Professor at the Department of Economic Law of the Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University IVAN HORODYSKYY, Cand.jud., Director of the School of Law of the Ukrainian Catholic University MIKHAYLO PODOLYAK, Attorney General of the Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine OLEKSANDR BILOUS, First Deputy Prosecutor of the Mykolayiv Region OLEKSIY KUZMINSKIY, Candidate of Judicial Sciences, Head of the UBA Branch in Cherkassy region, attorney
Issues for discussion: - Legal science on the forefront of formation of a new generation of lawyers - Confidence and respect for the legal profession - Expectations of society of a new generation lawyer - Standards of the legal profession: for judges, lawyers, prosecutors - Objective and subjective personal components of a lawyer
Second opinion: NATALIYA ZABOLOTNA, public figure, president of the HUMANITARIAN DEVELOPMENT FUND OF UKRAINE |
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16:30 16:45 |
Q&A Session |
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16:45 17:15 |
Coffee Break | |
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17:15 17:45 |
OP-ED SPEECH Confidence in court in the context of nation-wide confidence issues |
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Moderator: SEVGIL MUSAIEVA-BOROVYK, Chief Editor of Ukrainska Pravda
Speakers: MAKSYM ZHYDKO, Candidate of Psychological Sciences, associate professor, member of the Unified Register of Professional Psychotherapists of the European Association of Psychotherapists, author of books on psychological examination and mediation of conflicts, anthropology, psychological counseling and psychotherapy, expert on HMI, CEO Soft Skills Lab SERHIY VERLANOV, member of the Public Council of Integrity, partner at Sayenko Kharenko |
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17:45 17:55 |
Q&A Session |
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17:55 18:00 |
CLOSING REMARKS |
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SECOND DAY PRELIMINARY PROGRAM 29 September 2017 (Friday)
Hilton Kyiv Hotel, 30 Taras Shevchenko boulevard |
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08:30 09:00 |
Registration. Welcoming coffee |
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09:00 09:15 |
FORUM OPENING. WELCOMING REMARKS
ANDRIY STELMASCHUK, President of the Ukrainian Bar Association, Managing Partner at Vasil Kisil & Partners HANNE JUNCHER, Head of the Justice and Legal Co-operation Department, Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law, Council of Europe ANNA OGRENCHUK, Member of the Judicial Reform Council under the President of Ukraine, Chairman of the UBA Committee on Procedural Law, Managing Partner at LCF |
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09:15 10:15 |
Session 1. HARD TALK Judicial Reform Status |
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Moderator: ANNA OGRENCHUK, Member of the Judicial Reform Council under the President of Ukraine, Chairman of the UBA Committee on Procedural Law, Managing Partner at LCF
Participants: OLEKSIY FILATOV, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration HANNE JUNCHER, Head of the Justice and Legal Co-operation Department, Directorate General of Human Rights and Rule of Law, Council of Europe IGOR BENEDYSYUK, Chairman of the Supreme Council of Justice, member of the Judicial Reform Council under the President of Ukraine, member of the Constitutional Commission, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine SERGIY KOZYAKOV, Candidate of Judicial Sciences, Chairman of the High Qualifications Commission of Judges of Ukraine, member of the Judicial Reform Council under the President of Ukraine
Issues for discussion: - The key achievements of the judicial reform |
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10:15 10:30 |
Q&A Session |
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10:30 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00 12:45 |
Session 2. Awaited New Procedural Institutes |
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Moderators: ALLA LESKO, Member of the High Council for Justice, Secretary of the First Disciplinary Chamber TETYANA LYSOVETS, Senior Partner at Sokolovskyi and Partners |
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11:00 11:30 |
Full disclosure of evidence
Foreign practice - DOVYDAS VITKAUSKAS, Team Leader of the EU Project "Support to Justice Sector Reforms in Ukraine" Ukrainian practice - VOLODYMYR VASHCHENKO, Partner of VB PARTNERS |
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11:30 12:00 |
Abuse of procedural rights
Foreign practice - ARTEM DUDKO, Counsellor at White & Case LLP Ukrainian practice - OLEH GROMOVYI, Managing Partner at GENTLS |
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12:00 12:30 |
Competitiveness VS truth
Foreign practice - IVAN KASYNYUK, Partner at AGA Partners Ukrainian practice - LARYSA ROGACH, judge of the Supreme Economic Court of Ukraine, Secretary of the Plenum |
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12:30 12:45 |
Q&A Session |
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12:45 13:15 |
SPECIAL PRESENTATION The status of resonant court cases involving Ukraine |
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Moderator: ARTEM STOYANOV, Senior Partner at LCF
Speaker: MAKSYM KODUNOV, Head of the Office of the State's Representation in the Foreign Jurisdiction of the Department of Litigation and Bankruptcy of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine |
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13:15 14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00 15:15 |
Session 3. PARALLEL SECTIONS |
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Section 3.1 Economic disputes in the context of a new trial |
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Moderators: TETYANA SUYARKO, Candidate of Judicial Sciences, Judge of the Economic Court of Kharkiv region, member of the Council of the Ukrainian Courts ANDRIY SAVCHUK, Partner of MORIS GROUP |
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14:00 14:15 |
VITALIY URKEVYCH, Doctor of Law, Professor of the Department of Land and Agricultural Law of the Yaroslav the Wise National Law University |
Principle of proportionality in the new economic process |
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14:15 14:30 |
IGOR KRAVTSOV, Head of Judicial and Arbitration Practice at Evris |
Burning Issues of Mortgage: Burning Court Practice and Perspectives Under the Draft Commercial Procedural Code of Ukraine |
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14:30 14:45 |
TARAS KYSLYY, Counsel, Head of Intellectual Property/TMT Practice at EPAP Ukraine |
IP disputes: topical issues of judicial practice |
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14:45 |
TETYANA DROBOTOVA, Judge-Secretary of the Chamber of Higher Economic Court of Ukraine |
Recognition of invalid acts: the latest practice in land disputes and disputes involving the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine |
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15:00 15:15 |
Q&A Session |
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Section 3.2 Civil disputes in the context of a new trial |
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Moderators: SVITLANA GLUSHCHENKO, Doctor of Judicial Sciences, Director of the Department of the High Specialized Court of Ukraine for the Examination of Civil and Criminal Cases, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine JULIAN KHORUNZHYI, Senior partner at Ario Law Firm |
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14:00 14:15 |
DMYTRO GUDYMA, Candidate of judicial sciences, associate professor of the Department of Theory and Philosophy of Law, Faculty of Law, Lviv National University after Ivan Franko, attorney |
Some possible issues with application of the new edition of the Civil Procedural Code of Ukraine |
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14:15 14:30 |
AMINAT SULEYMANOVA, Managing Partner at AGA Partners |
Features of family disputes resolution: conflict or mediation |
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14:30 14:45 |
DMYTRO MOVCHAN, candidate of judicial sciences, judge at Leninsky District Court of Dnipropetrovsk |
Good faith purchaser concept as presented in the latest jurisprudence |
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14:45 15:00 |
OLGA PROSYANUYK, Managing Partner at AVER LEX |
Protection of honor and dignity: actual issues of resolving disputes concerning the dissemination of information of significant public interest |
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15:00 15:15 |
Q&A Session |
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Section 3.3 Administrative disputes in the context of a new trial |
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Moderators: TETYANA STRELETS, Judge of the High Administrative Court of Ukraine OLEKSANDR SHKELEBEY, Managing Partner at ESQUIRES |
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14:00 14:15 |
AGIA ZAGREBELSKA, State Commissioner of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine |
Features of consideration of disputes in the field of public procurement |
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14:15 14:30 |
OLEKSANDR STARODUB, Judge of the High Administrative Court of Ukraine |
Problematic issues of delimitation of jurisdictions on the example of certain categories of disputes: with SES, NBU |
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14:30 14:45 |
OLEKSANDR SHEMIATKIN, Partner at KM Partners law firm |
Tax disputes under the new rules: myth or reality |
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14:45 15:00 |
OLENA PERTSOVA, Head of Judicial Practice Department at Pavlenko Legal Group |
The most resonant disputes with the state in 2017 |
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15:00 15:15 |
Q&A Session |
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15:15 15:45 |
Coffee Break |
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15:45 16:30 |
SPECIAL PRESENTATION Polish Judicial Reform 2017: Pros, Cons and Lessons for Ukraine |
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Moderator: NATALIA PETROVA, Deputy Chief of Party of USAID FAIR Justice Project
Speaker: MATEUSZ PILICH, Doctor of Law, Member of the Office of Research and Analysis of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Poland, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw |
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16:30 17:30 |
Session 4. PANEL DISCUSSION The Role of the Supreme Court in Building a New Judicial System |
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Moderators: OLYANA GORDIENKO, Management Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) OLGA VOROZHBYT, Partner of DLA Piper Ukraine
Participants: BOHDAN LVOV, Head of High Economic Court of Ukraine, Member of Presidential Council on the Judicial Reform, Member of Constitutional Commission and Honoured Lawyer of Ukraine ALGIRDAS ŠEMETA, Business Ombudsman JAUTRĪTE BRIEDE, Resident Twinning Adviser “Strengthening the institutional capacity of the Supreme Court of Ukraine in the field of human rights protection at the national level”, Judge of Supreme Court of the Republic of Latvia VOLODYMYR KRAVCHUK, Doctor of Law, Professor, Judge of Lviv Regional Administrative Court, President of the Association for the Development of Judicial Self-Government of Ukraine, member of the Constitutional Commission VOLODYMYR PAVLENKO, Counsel of Litigation Practice of Integrites Other participants TBC
Issues for discussion: - The role of the Supreme Court in raising the investment climate of the state - Supreme Court in the judicial system of Ukraine: updated goals and objectives - Interaction of national courts and international commercial arbitration / foreign courts |
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17:30 17:45 |
Q&A Session |
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17:45 18:00 |
CONCLUSIONS AND CLOSING REMARKS |
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18:00 20:00 |
EVENING RECEPTION |
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