Dear friends, today, while on my business trip to the United Kingdom of Great Britain, I have attended an extremely pleasant event organized by the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle – a UK vs Ukraine solidarity chess match, with the UK number one, Michael Adams, taking on the Ukrainian champion Andrii...
Yesterday I participated in a major conference dedicated to a future of the European Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) system on consumer rights protection and a general modernization of a dispute resolution/regulation. This great event was organized by the world’s leading experts in ADR field – Professor Christopher Hodges (University of Oxford, UK) and Professor Stefaan...
International specialists and experts held an online discussion on problematic legal issues related to war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against the environment by Russian troops in Ukraine. The event took place on April 6, 2022 with the assistance of Sergei Lagodinsky, Member of the European Parliament. Eurojust’s chairman Ladislav Hamran, Columbia University professor...
Today, together with the President of the Association of Ukrainians in Belgium Igor Chechelak, the ambassador of Ukraine to the European Union Vsevolod Chentsov, as well as with the participation of colleagues from the Delegation of Ukraine to the EU, we discussed the instructions of the President of Ukraine and agreed to cooperate in monitoring...
I participated in a meeting with the European Commissioner for the Environment, Virginijus Sinkevičius, together with the ambassador of Ukraine to the European Union, Vsevolod Chentsov, and a representative of the Ukrainian Business and Trade Association. We see a huge number of environmental crimes committed by Russian occupiers on our land: large-scale fires, explosions of...
In the Western world large corporations and businesses often face multi-million exposure of class action issues. In Ukraine there are many events that can give rise to such lawsuits, but the first precedent has been set only recently. We talked to the ideologist behind the use of the class action mechanism in Ukraine, Pavlo Kuftyryev, managing...
Pavlo Kuftyryev, managing partner of GRECO law company, tells RBC-Ukraine in an interview about the Vasylkiv tragedy, and his leadership role in successfully pursuing the first-ever class-action lawsuit in Ukraine for one million dollars of compensation; about accusations of pressure on business; and the about the possible recovery of a record amount of compensation from...
