Overview

Amendments to the Russian Civil Procedure Code will come into force from 1 January 2012. One of the principal changes is that a full appeal stage has been introduced into litigation procedure. A court judgment could be appealed before, but this was only true for the rulings passed by justices of the peace. Now the amended article 320(1) of the CPC explicitly stipulates that decisions of the first instance (trial) court that have not yet entered into legal force may be appealed through the appeal procedure.

Pepeliaev Group outline how the changes will affect cases heard in the court of appeal, the timeline for the entry into force of a judgment that has not been appealed, the period for filing the cassation appeal and the structure of the Civil Procedure Code. Lastly, the briefing discusses the wider implications of the amendments to Code.

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