Changes in civil procedure from May 2012
Change, which is the most important and concerning the practice of everyone, who will be a demand and not a defendant in a civil case, is that the courts may (but need not), enter in any proceedings, regardless of a subject, high rigor evidence.
It will involve the fact that the court may require the defendant to submit a statement of defense within a period of not less than two weeks from the receipt of the lawsuit, and that may require both parties to the submission of further documents, marking the order and terms of their submission of statements and circumstances that are to be explained.
NOTE: Failure to comply with this obligation will result in that court will be able to skip such late statements and evidences, generally – do not take them into account. To avoid this situation, you will need to substantiate that you did not report them in the lawsuit response or further preparatory document without your own fault or that consideration of late allegations and evidences will not cause delay in the examination of the case or that there are other exceptional circumstances.
However, in this case, a fact whether those arguments, statements and conclusions of evidence will be taken into account or simply skip them, will depend only by the court.
The conclusion is, that you have to be attentive from the very beginning of the proceedings and carefully cite all the circumstances and supporting evidences.
