Round Table on Problem Issues of Land Titles Acquisition and Extension Ran under the Auspices of Legal Alliance Law Firm
Round table discussion “Problem Issues of Land Titles Acquisition and Extension” ran on 7 November in Simferopol.
The round table was hosted by the Crimean office of the Ukrainian Lawyers’ Association (ULA) under the auspices of Legal Alliance Law Firm.
Apart from practising lawyers traditionally attending ULA events the hosts invited law students, members of the ULA Students’ League.
The discussion subject is of prime importance considering difficulty of legal governance of relationships evolving out of dynamic growth of the land market and the changing court practice concerning rental disputes.
One of the reports was made by Marina Semenova, director of Semenova & Partners Law Firm, who explained problems of acquiring land titles by individuals in the course of privatisation. Ms Semenova presented two perspectives of her view of the existing practice:
- Acquisition of land titles by individuals for development and maintenance of residential houses and utility buildings.
- Acquisition of land titles by Ukrainian citizens in the course of privatisation of national and municipal agricultural land.
Lack of legal regulation of typical procedural matters related to review of individual applications and the making of appropriate decisions by competent authorities creates numerous problems of enforcement and causes gross abuses of rights of individuals to acquisition of land plots.
Another report on topical enforcement aspects was made by Dmitry Moiseenko, head of the legal department of the Crimean Republican Union of Consumer Societies, who spoke on problems of renewal of rental relationships in land law. He gave a practising lawyer’s outlook of concepts and schemes of leases renewal or extension and explained strengths and weaknesses of these schemes. The speaker pointed at discrepancies between the Civil Code and the Economic Code in treating rights and obligations of entrepreneurial subjects in respect of extension or renewal of leases and shared his hands-on experience in addressing disputes in this matter in courts.
Round table presentations caused lively discussion where participants had a chance to share their experience and knowledge on issues reviewed, as well as to socialize and discuss urgent aspects of land law.
