Two draft laws have been registered on the basis of proposals submitted by Pragnum Law Firm: one of them obliges, and the second one gives the judge the right to suspend the litigation if a mobilised person is one of the litigants.

When protecting rights of the mobilised in court, specialists of Pragnum repeatedly faced the fact that obsolete provisions of the Law were not adapted to conditions of the anti-terrorism operation (ATO). Thus, currently if a claim has been filed against the mobilised person, or litigation as of the time of his mobilisation has already started, the person is actually legally deprived of the right to take immediate part in consideration of the case as the Civil Procedure Code does not provide for the court's obligation to suspend hearing of the case for the mobilisation period. This way, while the mobilised person participate in the ATO, litigations proceed and judgements are delivered.

The lawyers of Pragnum have developed amendments to Article 201 of the Civil Procedure Code of Ukraine in order to adapt the Ukrainian laws to the present-day challenges. You can read about the proposed amendments in detail here.

As a result, two draft laws, No. 2999 and No. 2758, enabling to exercise the right of the mobilised persons to immediate participation in court sessions on their case have been registered as of today by the initiative of Pragnum. Co-authors of the draft laws, MPs O.  M.  Petrenko and S. I.  Semenchenko, have expressed their gratitude to the experts of Pragnum for the work performed.