After the opening of the insolvency proceedings, the assets in the debtor’s estate provide a static image of what can be understood as the „active side”. However, the legal rules applicable to these assets in insolvency must retrieve from the substantive law rules those which are compatible with the dynamics under which the insolvency proceedings are conducted. The book records which reflect such assets may raise questions as to whether they ...

The restructuring law (Law. no. 216/2022 for the transposition of the Directive (EU) 2019/1023 on restructuring and insolvency into the Romanian legal system) entered into force on July 17th, 2022. The new law amends Law no. 85/2014 regarding preventive insolvency proceedings and insolvency proceedings as following: (i) the new law revoke ad-hoc mandate proceeding and proposes a new proceeding – the restructuring agreement and (ii) modifies the...

It is a truism that, as a rule, economic crises (and not only) have a certain cyclicality, relatively easy to detect. Trying to capitalize on the “calm before the storm”, the European Legislator has focused on a difficult area during the previous crisis – insolvency. Applying the medical principle: it is easier to prevent than to combat, he focused in particular on the area just before insolvency, from a logical and chronological perspective, ...

Irrespective of the legal relation it is applied to, the suspension should not have ratio legis, permanent consequences. In other words, the suspension as a procedural instrument, should preserve the substance of the legal relation and delay the review or evolution thereof. In terms of tax inspection, article 127 of the Code of Tax Proceedings is no exception either, since it is a legal instrument necessary, yet proportionally applicab...

This article presents the legal framework relating to the consolidation of inter-war buildings, including those pertaining to the immovable cultural heritage, by examining the main pieces of legislation in force as well as the draft legislation initiated locally and nationally and launched for public debate. Within this analysis, the main deficiencies identified with respect to the relevant provisions are rendered – namely the lack of a rigor...

The verbal message is only one of the elements of communication, its weight being often appreciated as inferior to para-verbal and non-verbal communication.The latter, by engaging the entire body of the transmitter, outlines the overall picture that strengthens or diminishes the power of words.

Although there is an express regulation under the Civil Code, both hardship and datio in solutum have particularly attracted the attention of the legislator, who considered that common regulation is not sufficient to resolve situations arising during the post-2008 economic crisis, when the debtors were no longer able to fulfill their obligations. Thus appeared Law no. 77/2016, which was “improved” along the way by Law no. 52/2020, its...

The article discusses how civil courts deal with the fraud by backdating documents by a former representative of the company together with a third party. The specificity of this kind of fraud is that it puts at work some legal presumptions (the presumption that the date on the document is the correct one, the presumption that the agreement has a lawful cause) to create advantages for the fraudsters. When situations of this kind are not timely...

Exclusion is a measure specific to intuitu personae companies. The legal enumeration can be extended through by-laws, as established by the High Court of Cassation and Justice – Panel for resolving legal issues in civil matters, by Decision no. 28/2021. Prior to this decision, the doctrine was divided, a large part considering that the enumeration is limiting. However, the shareholders cannot eliminate, through the by-laws, one or mo...

By Decision no. 28/2021, the High Court of Cassation and Justice appears to have been created problems instead of resolving legal issues. Thus, in this paper we aimed to identify them rather than clarify them, and show that the release itself needs release. Keywords: