Advocates Bureau Yug Successfully Defended Major Energy Company Against a Lawsuit of Guaranteeing Supplier

21.05.19

Advocates Bureau Yug Successfully Defended Major Energy Company Against a Lawsuit of Guaranteeing Supplier

The suit’s subject was to recover the cost of electric energy during its transmission in the sum of more than 17M RUB. Lawyers of Advocates Bureau Yug proved that the guaranteeing supplier could not unilaterally terminate the energy supply agreement because it had not performed all relevant obligations. Thus, there were no grounds to consider the energy provided as energy consumed non-contractually, and no grounds to recover its cost as real losses.

The judge decided that possible restriction of energy intake regime of socially important user must be imposed only on case-by-case basis and upon considering consequences of such restrictions. The suit against the energy company was dismissed by the decision of the Krasnodar Region Commercial Court.

The case may have influence on consideration of other similar cases, where recovery sum exceeds 500M RUB.

Yuri Pustovit, Managing partner of ABY, and its lawyer Alexey Demekhin represented the client’s interest on the case.