The event was held on 13 November 2013 in Lviv and covered problematic issues in application of the Criminal Procedural Code of Ukraine. Vitaly spoke about challenges that investigative judges and judges are confronted with who are authorized by the law to apply provisions of the Criminal Procedural Code of Ukraine in light of the European standards and commented certain problems arising by judges while applying the Code from the point of view of approaches of the European Court of Human Rights.   

The workshop covered such issues as the status of the defence counsel, his/her rights and obligations in criminal proceedings, obligations of the investigative judge as to protection of human rights, sanctioning rules and implementation of injunctive measures, in particular, granting access by investigative judges to things and documents, including documents containing bank secrets, legal guarantees to owners of things and documents, sanctioning and conducting searches of premises of legal entities, admissibility of evidence obtained with silent investigative (search) actions, crime provocation and approaches of the European Court with regard to this issue etc.Kyiv, 4 December 2013 - Dentons acted as legal counsel to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on the US$10 million loan to Public Joint-Stock Company “MEGABANK” for on-lending to small, privately-owned companies across the country.

The EBRD is the largest financial investor in Ukraine. As of 1 September 2013 the Bank had committed more than €8.6 billion (US$ 11.6 billion), through 327 projects, in Ukraine.

The Dentons London team was led by Partner Svetlozar (Zarko) Iankov supported by Partner Mark Wilson and Associate Adam Jones.

The Dentons Kyiv team was led by Partner Natalya Selyakova supported by Associate Nikolay Zhovner.