Oliwia Lewandowska
After a judgment is set aside on interlocutory appeal to the Supreme Court, the case can be reconsidered by the very same judges
The panel of judges must be changed after a ruling is overturned and remanded for reconsideration only in the case of a ruling on the merits of the specific dispute. This is not the case for proceedings commenced by an interlocutory appeal to the Supreme Court on procedural issues.
You must know where the defendant lives
Although Civil Procedure Code Art. 126 §2 does not clearly indicate that the term “address” means an individual defendant’s home address, and not some other address, the common practice of Polish courts has been to require that the home address be provided. If the plaintiff does not indicate the address where an individual defendant resides or the address of the registered office of a corporate defendant, the statement of claim will be rejected because it cannot be processed properly.
New courts established
The Regulation of the Minister of Justice of 7 October 2014 on Establishment of Certain District Courts came into force on 1 January 2015.
Amendments to the Civil Procedure Code
Numerous minor changes in civil procedure enter into force in Poland in January 2015, concerning such matters as submission of disputed items to the court deposit, the rights of non-parties, and certain aspects of competition cases.
