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The Russian Government Has Submitted a Draft Law Limiting the Grounds for Reducing Court-Appointed Experts’ Remuneration

31 August 2026

The Russian Government has submitted to the State Duma a draft law proposing to regulate the procedure for reducing the remuneration payable to court-appointed experts in civil, commercial and administrative proceedings.

The draft law has been prepared in furtherance of Ruling No. 6-P of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation dated 11 February 2026, in which the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation indicated the need to establish criteria for the permissible reduction of an expert’s remuneration previously agreed and approved by the court.

Zarina Kalinina
Associate

The Ministry of Justice Has Prepared a Draft Law Distinguishing the Period for Discovering Defects in Goods from the Limitation Period

28 August 2026

The Ministry of Justice of Russia has prepared the draft federal law “On Amendments to Article 477 of Part Two of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation”. The draft law was prepared in order to implement Ruling No. 38-P of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation dated 9 June 2026 which declared paragraph 2 of Article 477 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation unconstitutional to the extent that it creates uncertainty as to whether a buyer may bring court claims after the expiry of the two-year period for discovering defects, provided that the defects themselves were identified within that period.

Zarina Kalinina
Associate