diff --git a/compiler/frontend/src/org/jetbrains/jet/lang/descriptors/FunctionGroup.java b/compiler/frontend/src/org/jetbrains/jet/lang/descriptors/FunctionGroup.java
index d767bce0cd9..1dcfc99cf83 100644
--- a/compiler/frontend/src/org/jetbrains/jet/lang/descriptors/FunctionGroup.java
+++ b/compiler/frontend/src/org/jetbrains/jet/lang/descriptors/FunctionGroup.java
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ public interface FunctionGroup extends Named {
         public Set<FunctionDescriptor> getFunctionDescriptors() {
             return Collections.emptySet();
         }
+
+        @Override
+        public String toString() {
+            return "EMPTY";
+        }
     };
 
 
diff --git a/compiler/frontend/src/org/jetbrains/jet/lang/descriptors/MutableClassDescriptor.java b/compiler/frontend/src/org/jetbrains/jet/lang/descriptors/MutableClassDescriptor.java
index 402b5c83597..008c53e20bb 100644
--- a/compiler/frontend/src/org/jetbrains/jet/lang/descriptors/MutableClassDescriptor.java
+++ b/compiler/frontend/src/org/jetbrains/jet/lang/descriptors/MutableClassDescriptor.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ public class MutableClassDescriptor extends MutableDeclarationDescriptor impleme
         super(containingDeclaration);
         this.scopeForMemberLookup = new WritableScopeImpl(JetScope.EMPTY, this, trace.getErrorHandler()).setDebugName("MemberLookup");
         this.scopeForSupertypeResolution = new WritableScopeImpl(outerScope, this, trace.getErrorHandler()).setDebugName("SupertypeResolution");
-        this.scopeForMemberResolution = new WritableScopeImpl(new ChainedScope(this, scopeForMemberLookup, scopeForSupertypeResolution), this, trace.getErrorHandler()).setDebugName("MemberResolution");
+        this.scopeForMemberResolution = new WritableScopeImpl(scopeForSupertypeResolution, this, trace.getErrorHandler()).setDebugName("MemberResolution");
         this.kind = kind;
     }
 
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ public class MutableClassDescriptor extends MutableDeclarationDescriptor impleme
     public void addPropertyDescriptor(@NotNull PropertyDescriptor propertyDescriptor) {
         properties.add(propertyDescriptor);
         scopeForMemberLookup.addVariableDescriptor(propertyDescriptor);
+        scopeForMemberResolution.addVariableDescriptor(propertyDescriptor);
     }
 
     @NotNull
@@ -98,6 +99,7 @@ public class MutableClassDescriptor extends MutableDeclarationDescriptor impleme
     public void addFunctionDescriptor(@NotNull FunctionDescriptor functionDescriptor) {
         functions.add(functionDescriptor);
         scopeForMemberLookup.addFunctionDescriptor(functionDescriptor);
+        scopeForMemberResolution.addFunctionDescriptor(functionDescriptor);
     }
 
     @NotNull
@@ -118,6 +120,7 @@ public class MutableClassDescriptor extends MutableDeclarationDescriptor impleme
     @Override
     public void addClassifierDescriptor(@NotNull MutableClassDescriptor classDescriptor) {
         scopeForMemberLookup.addClassifierDescriptor(classDescriptor);
+        scopeForMemberResolution.addClassifierDescriptor(classDescriptor);
     }
 
     public void addSupertype(@NotNull JetType supertype) {
diff --git a/idea/testData/codegen/regressions/kt297.jet b/idea/testData/codegen/regressions/kt297.jet
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0a6ad8f82a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/idea/testData/codegen/regressions/kt297.jet
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+// KT-297 Overload resolution ambiguity with required in trait
+trait ALE<T> : java.util.ArrayList<T> {
+   fun getOrValue(index: Int, value : T) : T = if(index >= 0 && index < size()) get(index) else value
+}
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