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Jarosław Warylewski, advocate, Prof. Ph.D. habilitated, University of Gdańsk (Gdańsk)
The legal professional privilege and conditions of criminal liability for its infrigement
(disclosure) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Radosław Baszuk, advocate (Warszawa)
The influence of the amendment to the Advocates Act and the Criminal Procedure Code
on the advocates disciplinary proceedings model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Bartosz Kędzierski, assistant of University of Gdańsk (Gdańsk)
Fighting Poland Sign – public insults problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Piotr Poniatowski, advocate’s trainee (Lublin)
Active repentance in attempted crime (part 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Kazimierz Postulski, retired judge of Court of Appeal (Lublin)
Amendments to the execution of the fine penalty in force from 1st July 2015 . . . . . . . . . . 55
Magdalena Aksamitowska-Kobos, candidate for doctor’s degree of University of Silesia
(Katowice)
Polish citizens’ applications for legal help, forwarded abroad, in proceedings in front of
foreign courts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Marek Derlatka, advocate, Ph.D., senior lecturer of State Higher Vocational School (Sulechów)
Social harmfulness of pretending to be a public officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Filip Ciepły, Ph.D., senior lecturer of Catholic University of Lublin (Lublin),
Krzysztof Hoffmann, student of Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań)
Trance and possession disorder and assessment of criminal accountability . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Marta Romańska, judge of Supreme Court (Warszawa)
The application of action for a declaratory judgment (art. 189 of the Code of Civil Procedure) in contractual relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Bartosz Stelmach, advocate’s trainee, candidate for doctor’s degree of Jagiellonian University
(Kraków)
Interpretation of nullity – selected problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Artur Krzysztof Kruszewski, advocate’s trainee, candidate for doctor’s degree of Warsaw
University (Warszawa)
The need for amendment of the regulations governing the form of declarations of will 118
Tomasz Marek, advocate’s trainee, candidate for doctor’s degree of Jagiellonian University
(Kraków)
The effects of the abstract control of the provisions of the standard contracts . . . . . . . . 123
POINTS OF VIEW
Piotr Zaporowski, candidate for doctor’s degree of University of Wrocław (Wrocław)
Should an entrepreneur not be able to act under different firms? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Dariusz Michta, advocate, Ph.D. (Będzin)
Can a board of directors represent a limited liability company in a lawsuit concerning
social insurance where the parties are the company and its board’s member? . . . . . . . . 149
GLOSSES
Zygmunt Kukuła, Ph.D. (Bielsko-Biała)
Gloss to the sentence of Court of Appeal in Wrocław of 21st January, 2014, II Aka 123/14
[on the criteria of a judicial fraud] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
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Magdalena Kowalewska, Ph.D., University of Szczecin (Szczecin)
Gloss to the sentence of Court of Appeal in Łódź of 30th January, 2014, II Aka 251/13 [on
the intention of murder] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kamil Siwek, student of Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań)
Gloss to the decision of Supreme Court of 20th November, 2013, II KK 184/13 [on obligatory extraordinary mitigation of punishment] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marcel Góra, legal adviser’s trainee, candidate for doctor’s degree of Jagiellonian University,
(Kraków)
Gloss to the sentence of Supreme Court of 16th May, 2012, III CSK 227/11 [on the failure
to provide a patient with accessible information about the operation] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katarzyna Szczepańska, advocate’s trainee, candidate for doctor’s degree of Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań)
Gloss to the sentence of Supreme Court of 6th November, 2014, II CSK 53/14 [on the
agreement of the usufruct of shares in a limited liability company excluding a possibility of deriving benefits] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
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RECENT CASE-LAW
Zbigniew Szonert, Ph.D., retired judge of NSA (Supreme Administrative Court) (Warszawa)
Review of Supreme Administrative Court’s case-law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Michał Jackowski, advocate, Ph.D. (Poznań)
Review of Constitutional Tribunal’s case-law (December 2014–January 2015) . . . . . . . . . 191
Marek Antoni Nowicki, advocate (Warszawa)
European Court of Human Rights – review of case-law (January–March 2015) . . . . . . . 196
LEGAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Ewa Stawicka, advocate (Warszawa)
Can a former tenant defend themselves with an allegation of an abuse of the substantive right against a claim to restore the property to its original state? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
QUESTION ABOUT DEFENCE
Antoni Bojańczyk, advocate, Ph.D. habilitated, professor of Warsaw University (Warszawa)
Can failing by the court to make use of the right to adduce evidence be a subject of appeal
control in the amended criminal procedure? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
ROAD ACCIDENTS
Wojciech Kotowski (Warszawa)
Culpable hit of a female pedestrian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
LAWYER, BOOK-LOVER’S TALES
Andrzej Tomaszek, advocate (Warszawa)
Scripta manent, or on the art of professional speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
AFTER THE READING
Andrzej Bąkowski, advocate (Warszawa)
I wish I had known Him . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
TRIALS IN THE ARTISTIC WORLD
Marek Sołtysik (Kraków)
An intimate motive (part 3). Dirty doings of an artsy dreamer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
THE HISTORY OF THE BAR
Ryszard Szawłowski, Prof. LL.D. (Warszawa)
Rafał Lemkin. A Warsaw lawyer (1934–1939), a creator of the concept of “genocide” and
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a main architect of the convention of 9th December 1948 (“Lemkin’s Convention”). On
55th death anniversary. Part II: The one-year Swedish interlude 1940–1941 and the American years 1941–1948 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
SYMPOSIA AND CONFERENCES
Marzena Andrzejewska, advocate’s trainee, candidate for doctor’s degree of Jagiellonian
University (Kraków), Maciej Andrzejewski advocate’s trainee, candidate for doctor’s
degree of Jagiellonian University (Kraków)
A scientific conference “A dualistic model or two models. Consensual vs. adversarial
system in criminal procedure”, Kraków, 14th–15th March 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Małgorzata Kożuch, advocate, Ph.D., senior lecturer of Jagiellonian University (Kraków)
First Competition Law Congress, Warsaw, 13th–15th April 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
THE BAR CHRONICLE
From the meetings of Polish Bar Council’s Presidium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
VARIA
The meeting of the European Bar Human Rights Institute (IDHAE), Paris, 20th March 2015
Zbigniew Cichoń, advocate (Kraków) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “Crystal Hearts” for the Toruń lawyers
Wiktor Indan-Pykno, advocate, dean of District Bar Council (Toruń) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Polish Bar’s delegation honoured the memory of the lawyers murdered in Katyn and
the victims of the Smolensk catastrophe
Izabela Matjasik, Press Office of Polish Bar Council (Warszawa) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Annual Meeting of the Polish Section of the International Commission of Jurists – presentation of awards in the “European Judge” Contest
AJR (Warszawa) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan Karski, Franciszek Zieliński and “Skaldowie”
Janusz Kanimir (Warszawa) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Meeting of the Łódź Alliance of the Self-Governments of Professions of Public Trust,
11th April 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
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LETTERS TO THE EDITORS
A couple of words about the need for the strategy of the Bar. In reference to the article of
Prof. Maciej Gutowski, advocate, entitled Questions about the future of the Bar
Wojciech Zwierzchowski, advocate (Kielce) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
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