Successfully represented the client in a court dispute with a water service company

The practice's team represented the client in a dispute with a water service company over the recovery of a payment for discharging pollutants where the allowable concentration was exceeded and over the payment for the detrimental effect to the centralised water-discharge system, with the total amount being over RUB 30 million.

Owing to the efforts of our lawyers, the decision of a first-instance court was set aside and the claims were dismissed in full. The court of appeal agreed with the defendant’s arguments that the sampling of waste water of the user was conducted with gross violations which affected the reliability of the results of the examination. 

In addition to the unfounded claims of the water service company being excluded based on the outcome of the case, the client had a precedent-setting court decision handed down to it which will be relevant if similar disputes are considered between the same parties with regard to the payment for other periods. Moreover, the court judgment which was adopted under the case might be of use to other users who may encounter similar violations of the procedure on the part of water discharge companies and, primarily, where samples are taken other than from the control well which has been approved in the water discharge agreement.