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The aim of the article is to prove that the Polish lawmaker groundlessly excluded two forms of protection: tolerated stay and residence permit for humanitarian reasons from among the forms of residence legalization included within the gamut of public protection forms of the legalization of foreigners' residence. A historical review of the development of forms of public protection in Poland will serve...
The Polish Code of Civil Procedure in article 1138 states that the probative value of foreign official documents is equal to Polish official documents. As a rule the law does not require legalisation to grant foreign official documents probative value equal to Polish official documents. The Code, however, provides for two exceptions to this rule which require legalisation by Polish agents or consular...
This article analyses classic issues of public international law on the recent example of Crimea's unification with the Russian Federation. Legal claims of both sides involved in this territorial contention have been scrutinized, in particular whether Crimeans are entitled to external self-determination or the principle of sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine should prevail. In addition,...
The Case Study concerns the legal effects on the territory of Poland of an Austrian court decision on the establishment of a guardian for an adult person. The court case had been initiated before the Austrian court in the year 2013 and the decision in this case became final on 31 December 2013. The legal analysis concerns the sources of law that could possibly apply to the case. This leads to the...
The article presents the rules on jurisdiction and applicable law contained in Polish law in comparison with the EU Succession Regulation. In accordance with private international law rules contained in the Polish Private International Law Act and its predecessors, the law applicable to succession is designated by the connecting factor of the nationality of the deceased at the time of death. At the...
Irrespectively of the competition itself, economy and finances have become more and more important in sport due to great investments involved in this sphere of economic and social life. As a consequence, worldwide and European sport organizations and federations have gained even greater importance. Bearing in mind scale, territorial scope, finances engaged and popularity of certain kinds of sport,...
Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights provides that freedom of expression includes the right to receive information and ideas. But it is unclear if that freedom also involves the right to seek information and the right to have access to public information, first of all stored in registers controlled or administered by the State. The first drafts of the European Convention secured a...
The text comments on the Court of Justice of the European Union judgment of 26 February 2015 in the case C-472/13, Andre Lawrence Shepherd v Bundesrepublik Deutschland. The judgment was delivered within the framework of the preliminary ruling procedure following the request from the Bayerisches Verwaltungsgericht München. A.L. Shephered was a former US soldier who had deserted from the US Army and...
Enhanced protection remains the latest and most modern mechanism of cultural property protection in the case of international and non-international armed conflicts. It was established by the 1999 Second Protocol to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict in order to protect the cultural heritage of the greatest importance for humanity much more...
Modern corruption crimes take the form of actions which respective stages and effects may occur in the territories of different countries. Therefore it is necessary to create a system of effective international cooperation to combat corruption and to adopt legislation enabling the prosecution of the perpetrators of corruption. Such activities have been undertaken by international organizations acting...
This paper includes the analyse of the copyright regulations in the context of the freedom of expression. Authors presented the regulations concerning intellectual property rights in the international dimension, in particular the means implemented by countries for effective IPR protection. Moreover, it was focused on the freedom of expression and the relevant judgements of the ECHR. The practical...
After the judgment of 11 March 2016 no. I CSK 64/15 given by the Polish Supreme Court it seems to be impossible to define in Polish legal space the proper law applicable to the succession case. In a very short succession judgment (in which the deceased Polish citizen died in Sweden in 2008) Supreme Court has done at least three fundamental mistakes concerning the intertemporal application of legal...
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