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Artur Zurabian | comments for the «Advokatskaya Gazeta: The State Duma again adopted a law expanding the authority of the public prosecutor in arbitration proceedings

Attorney, Head of Litigation and International Arbitration Artur Zurabian spoke positively of the changes prepared by the conciliation commission. The expert emphasized that as applicable to the RF Arbitration Procedure Code (APC), an exhaustive list of cases was fixed, in which the public prosecutor may intervene at any stage of arbitration proceedings for the purpose of law enforcement. In the initial version adopted by the State Duma early in June, the list was not exhaustive, which, by all means, could make grounds for potential abuse, believes Artur Zurabian.

The Attorney deems it important that the law takes into consideration the specific character of the civil procedure legislation and stresses that the public prosecutor not just intervenes in the case at any stage, but does it for the purpose of giving an opinion. Artur Zurabian brought to recollection that by virtue of Article 45 of the RF CCP, a public prosecutor can either file a petition in court to protect the rights, freedoms and lawful interests of private individuals, general public or interests of the RF, RF subjects or municipalities (and in this case, he has all the rights of a plaintiff, except for those expressly stated in the RF CCP), or intervene in a case to give an opinion to the merits.

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