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This article argues that the High Court has provided a timely warning of the legal dangers facing managers in their commercial dealings when engaged in competitive tendering and contracting (CTC). The Esanda case illustrates the increasingly close relationship between public administration and aspects of corporate governance.

Formulaicity is one of the characteristic features of legal discourse, which manifests itself not only at the level of wording, "but also in the content, structure and layout" of legal texts (Ruusila & Londroos 2016, 123). Formulaic language, which includes phrasal and prepositional verbs, idioms, collocations, lexico-grammatical associations, lexical bundles, etc., are building blocks of legal discourse shaping legal text meanings. However, up to now, far too little attention has been paid to the nature of frequently occurring "sequences of three or more words that show a statistical tendency to co-occur" (Biber & Conrad 1999, 183), i.e. lexical bundles, in different genres of legal texts. Most studies in the field of lexical bundles in legal texts have only been based on one language (e.g. Jablonkai 2009; Goźdź-Roszkowski 2011; Breeze 2013), whereas translation-oriented contrastive studies on lexical bundles are lacking. In respect of the aforementioned gaps, the aim of this pilot study is to analyse structural types of lexical bundles in court judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union in English and to examine the way these structures are rendered into Lithuanian. To gain insights into the frequency and structure of lexical bundles, the present study uses the methodological guidelines of corpus linguistics. The classification of lexical bundles into structural types is based on the framework suggested by Biber et al. (1999, 2004). For the purpose of this study, a parallel corpus of court judgments was compiled comprising approximately 1 million words of original court judgments in the English language and about 8 hundred thousand words of court judgments translated into Lithuanian. Lexical bundles in this research were identified using the corpus analysis toolkit AntConc 3.4.4 (Anthony 2015). A concordance program AntPConc 1.2.0 (Anthony 2017) was employed to find Lithuanian equivalents of the most frequent lexical bundles identified in the English court judgments. The evidence from this study suggests that different structural types of lexical bundles have more or less regular equivalents in Lithuanian; however, in most cases, these equivalents tend to be shorter.

In today's world, there is intense competition between integration entities that are working to strengthen and expand their political and economic positions. This article examines the movement of the Eurasian Economic Union in this direction. Aim. To propose a way to ensure a common legal space in the Eurasian Economic Union.Tasks. To analyse the regulation in force in the Eurasian Economic Union on the execution of court judgments and arbitral awards, to identify problems that member states of the Eurasian Economic Union may encounter in the execution of court judgments and arbitral awards.Methods. In this work were used both general scientific methods of knowledge: analysis, synthesis, generalization, and particular scientific methods: formal-logical, formal-legal, comparative-legal, method of legal prediction.Results. One of the most acute problems faced by states in the execution of judicial and arbitral decisions is the problem of execution of annulled judicial or arbitral decisions. To prevent this problem within the European Economic Union, the author considers that the members of the European Economic Union should not accede to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgements in Civil or Commercial Matters of 2 July 2019, as it does not resolve the fate of annulled judgements. With regard to arbitral awards, it would be desirable for the Member States of the European Economic Union to conclude between themselves a protocol to the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards of 10 June 1958, which would exclude the enforceability of annulled arbitral awards in all the States parties to the Protocol. The drafting of this additional protocol could be entrusted to the Eurasian Economic Commission of the European Economic Union.Conclusions. The Eurasian Economic Union needs to create a predictable legal space, which would primarily be ensured by the free movement of judicial and arbitral decisions.