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Henry
Reznik

Senior partner

Awards and Recognition

  • Honoured Lawyer of Russia
  • Gold Medal of F.N. Plevako
  • Order for Faithfulness to Legal Duty
  • A.F. Kony Medal
  • Laureate of the National Award of the Russian Federal Bar Association “For Honour and Dignity”
  • Name is recorded in the Moscow Bar Association Book of Honor “150 years of the Russian Bar”
  • The "Soldier of Themis" medal, established by the Moscow and Moscow Region Bar Association in honour of the lawyer David Barul
  • Veteran of the Moscow Bar Association
  • Leaders League

Academic degree

PhD in Jurisprudence

Rankings

BestLawyersBlack ChambersEuropeBlack

Professional communities

  • Vice President of the Federal Union of Lawyers of Russia
  • First Vice-President of the Moscow City Bar Association
  • Vice President of the International Union (Commonwealth) of Lawyers
  • Member of the Board of the Moscow Department of the Association of Lawyers of Russia
  • Deputy Chairman of the Expert Commission under the Children's Rights Commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation

Participation in law-making

  • Federal Law No. 63-FZ of 31.05.2002 “On advocacy and the Bar in the Russian Federation”
  • The Code of Professional Ethics for Advocates
  • Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation

Additional information

Defense in numerous complicated, high-profile criminal cases with acquittals of famous politicians, public officials, businessmen, literary and artistic figures, journalists, lawyers.

Extensive successful legal practice in cassation and supervision before the Supreme Courts of the USSR, the RSFSR and the Russian Federation. A number of cases have shaped changes in law enforcement and legislation.

Experience

Since 1962

Education

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

Expertise

Criminal Law Criminal procedure Protection of honour, dignity and goodwill

Key cases

  • The acquittal verdict on the charge of obstruction of justice against lawyer L. In the context of uncertain doctrine and inconsistent legal practice, for the first time the legal position of the defence, as accepted by the courts in three instances, that lawful procedural acts cannot constitute an offence under Article 294 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, was consistently formulated.
  • Successful defence of an entrepreneur accused of particularly large-scale fraud (Part 4 Article 159). The dismissal of the case for lack of corpus delicti was secured by prejudice arising from a decision of a commercial court. In the course of his rehabilitation, he was awarded property damage and compensation for moral damage in the amount of USD 8 million.
  • During the defence of a particular criminal case, it was successfully requested a ruling of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation that stopped the unlawful practice of a preliminary investigation measure of restraint in the form of a written undertaking not to leave without the defendant's consent.