As of November this year, the team of advocates at the Pietrzak Sidor & Partners Law Firm will hold duty hours at a special phone number: +48 733 338 717. The service will be available 7 days a week between 6 a.m. and midnight.

“Those first hours after arrest are crucial for further stages of criminal proceedings,” says advocate Miko_aj Pietrzak. “But our experiences show that access to a lawyer immediately after arrest is limited. By setting up this special contact number, we want to provide arrested persons with professional legal aid as early after the arrest as possible and ensure the best enforcement of the right to a fair trial,” he adds.

When accessing legal aid as part of the intervention duty hours, arrested persons (and persons close to them) will be able to receive immediate legal advice and information on the rights of arrested persons. They will also be able to ensure the participation of a lawyer in procedural acts, such as for example a hearing.

In the light of Polish law, an arrested person has the right to consult with a lawyer and can request contact with a lawyer immediately after arrest. By establishing this form of legal aid, the Pietrzak Sidor & Partners Law Firm would like to provide arrested persons and persons close to them with easy and immediate access to lawyers who specialise in representing clients in criminal proceedings.

The lawyers at the Pietrzak Sidor & Partners Law Firm have extensive experience in the area of criminal law. The Law Firm’s offer includes, among others, comprehensive representation of individual clients in criminal and executive criminal proceeding (more information available in Specialisations).