What are the main stages in civil proceedings in Ukraine? What is their underlying timeframe?
The main stages of the civil procedure are the following: (i) submission of the lawsuit (no specific timeframe); (ii) preliminary hearings in the general jurisdiction courts (generally, within from two weeks up to one month starting from the submission of the lawsuit); (iii) hearings (generally, within from one month up to five months starting from the preliminary hearings); and (iv) judgment (generally, declared on the last session; full text is generally issued within from three days up to ten days after the last session). It should be noted that the legal time frames are much lesser; practically they are not observed. There are no specific stages of the hearings before the courts of appeal and cassation except submission of the relevant application and the hearings itself. Generally, hearings before the courts of appeal and cassation courts take up to six months.
