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Imprisonment does not rule a man out
“The idea is that convicts should, within a reasonable time, as soon as possible, leave prisons under the control of penitentiary authorities. This way, they will be able find jobs, start or continue their education, and thus fully rehabilitate,” explains advocate Pietrzak. “We need to increase social sensitivity to...
The Constitutional Tribunal: the law on billings and phone-tapping are not compliant with the Constitution
The full Tribunal agreed only partly with allegations of the Polish Ombudsman, Irena Lipowicz, and the Prosecutor General, Andrzej Seremet, who questioned the current legal regulations. In order to prevent a loophole in the legal system and to prevent any reduction in Poland’s ability to combat crimes, the judgment...
ECHR decision in the case of secret CIA prisons
According to the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasburg from 24th July, 2014, Poland is obligated to pay 100,000 EUR of compensation to Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and 130,000 EUR of compensation to Abu Zubajda. Both men were imprisoned and tortured in the secret CIA prison...
Adv. Mikołaj Pietrzak participated in the Advanced Seminar of Criminal Law in Brussels
The participants discussed the impact of fundamental rights on criminal law in the European Union, the specificity of the principles governing criminal procedure and the organization of the criminal justice system, the legislative and judicial conditions for the admissibility of evidence, policies and practice in EU Member States regarding...
Adv. Mikołaj Pietrzak participated in a the debate on “The role of legal professional privilege and the right to a defence in proceedings before the anti-monopoly authority in Poland”
Adv. Mikołaj Pietrzak, who appeared on behalf of The Polish Bar Council, indicated in his statement that in some cases prosecutors regard the legal professional privilege as concerning only advocates but not suspects. As a result, prosecutors sometimes try to persuade suspects to reveal information about their confidential conversations...
Adv. Mikolaj Pietrzak as a speaker at the “Freedom Games” conference
The second day of the conference started with a panel discussion on “Does nothing justify use of tortures?”, in which adv. Mikołaj Pietrzak was one of the speakers. Mikołaj Pietrzak referred to the speech that the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama gave during his last...
Sąd Okręgowy w Warszawie wydał decyzję w sprawie gen. Radislava Krsticia. Serb może odbywać karę w Polsce
Both the defender of Radislav Krstić, adv. Mikolaj Pietrzak, and the Polish Prosecutor applied to the District Court in Warsaw to impose a penalty of 25 years of imprisonment. According to the District Court in Warsaw, that is the only possible length of a prison sentence for R. Kristić...
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