Studying the case
Analysis of the file and judgments: which violations actually work at the reviewing instance.
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Review of judgments and convictions
A lost case is not always the end: judgments and convictions can be taken to appeal, cassation, supervisory review and review on new circumstances. But every rung has its own deadlines and its own demands of the complaint. We start with an honest answer: is there anything to hold on to?
- Handled by
- Attorneys of the bar
- Instances
- Appeal · cassation · supervision
- First step
- Assessing the complaint’s prospects
A complaint “against everything at once” does not work: the reviewing courts check specific violations — procedural and substantive. So first we study the file and the judgments, then say plainly: there are grounds, or filing would waste your time and money.
What we do
- Study the case file and assess the prospects of a challenge.
- Draft appellate, cassation and supervisory complaints in civil, commercial and criminal cases.
- Represent clients before the reviewing courts.
- Prepare applications for review on new and newly discovered circumstances.
- Move to restore missed procedural deadlines.
- Seek suspension of enforcement of the contested judgment where possible.
Typical situations
- The first-instance court has ruled and you disagree.
- The previous representative missed a deadline or a key argument.
- A conviction is in, and the family is deciding whether to appeal.
- Circumstances have emerged that the court never knew.
HOW THE WORK IS BUILT
How the work is built
The complaint
Drafting to the standards of the specific instance; deadline control.
The hearing
Participation in the hearing; additional arguments and documents.
WHO HANDLES IT
Attorneys in this practice
Attorney since 2009, chairman of the bar association since 2019. Criminal and commercial litigation, personal and corporate insolvency.
More about their experience
- Education
- Graduated from the Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics (MESI) with a degree in Law. Completed professional retraining at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics under the unified insolvency-practitioner programme (crisis management). Postgraduate student at the Moscow Innovation University.
- Practice
- A practising attorney since 2009, specialising in criminal and commercial law and in personal and corporate insolvency cases.
- At the bar association
- Chairman of the Kovalev, Malyutov, Tsypkalo & Partners Moscow Bar Association since 2019.
Attorney since 2014; before that, more than twenty years in military prosecution offices. Retired colonel of justice.
More about their experience
- Education
- Graduated in 1992 from the law faculty of the Military Institute with a degree in law.
- Practice
- From 1992 to 2013 served in prosecutorial and investigative positions in military prosecution offices; colonel of justice. An attorney since 2014.
For fourteen years a judge of the Primorsky District Court of Mariupol, and before that a prosecution investigator. Called to the bar in 2026; handles cases at the association’s Mariupol office.
More about their experience
- Education
- 1999 — Yaroslav Mudryi National Law Academy, degree in law.
- Practice
- In the law since 1996, starting on the staff of the Primorsky District Court of Mariupol. From 1999 to 2003 she served in the Mariupol prosecution service: assistant to the environmental inter-district prosecutor, then senior investigator of the environmental and district prosecutor’s offices. Later — claims and legal work at the Azov Shipping Company “Torgovy Flot Donbassa”. From 2004 to 2018 — judge of the Primorsky District Court of Mariupol. From 2019 — in the bar: the Balashov & Partners law bureau, and from 2021 head of the Constant Legal Protection advocacy association. Called to the Russian bar in 2026; practises at the Mariupol office of the Kovalev, Malyutov, Tsypkalo & Partners Moscow Bar Association.
- Focus
- Criminal defence — drawing on her investigative service and fourteen years on the bench. Civil and family disputes; representation in courts of general jurisdiction.
- Approach
- Experience on both sides of the courtroom — fourteen years of deciding cases and investigative work at the prosecution service — helps her assess a case’s prospects soberly before it ever reaches court.
QUESTIONS
Frequently asked questions
What are the deadlines for appeals?
Each instance and case type has its own — from a month for a civil appeal to special periods in cassation and supervision. A deadline missed for good reason can be restored, but do not delay: every week costs chances.
How realistic is it to turn a case around in cassation?
Cassation overturns judgments for material violations — a minority of cases, and no one may promise reversal. After studying the file we say honestly whether grounds exist, and we do not file complaints for their own sake.
Another lawyer ran the case. Will you take it?
Yes — that is normal at the reviewing stages. We need the case file and the judgments; then comes the assessment and the decision whether to go on.
NEXT STEP
Let’s discuss your situation
The consultation is free when an agreement is signed: that is where we say whether the case has prospects and how the work would be built.