COURT FEES RELATED TO THE COURT ORDER FOR THE COMPETENT AUTHORITIES OF FOREIGN STATES
In: Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Legal Studies, Issue 112, p. 23-26
The article explores the court fees related to the execution of court orders, which are addressed to the competent authorities of foreign states in civil cases with a foreign element. The Civil Procedure Code of Ukraine does not state that the costs associated with the execution of court orders, addressed to the competent authorities of foreign states, are court fees. Therefore, the questions on which of the above fees can be attributed to the courts fees and the procedure for their reimbursement are raised. The importance of clarifying these issues requires the application of the uniform approaches to such cases consideration in Ukrainian courts. It is determined as the main purpose of this article. The case-law shows that in most cases where a court needs to apply to a competent authority of a foreign state, the person concerned must pay for the certified translation of the statement of claim and the attached documents into the official language of the requested state and pay for service of documents. In our conclusions, we propose to divide the court fees associated with the execution of court orders addressed to the competent authorities of foreign states, depending on the procedural actions that are being carried out, and to include the fees associated with the execution of court orders addressed to the competent authorities of foreign states, to the fees associated with the case, namely to the fees associated with other procedural acts necessary to the case consideration or to prepare for its consideration, which will ensure the right of the interested party to reimburse such fees in future.