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Currently, Ukraine is working on the new Lustration Law. The aim of the new Law is to exclude persons belonging to the circles of the former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was ousted in February, from holding high public positions. The participants of the conference (including, among others, representatives...

Last week, advocate Mikołaj Pietrzak conducted training on the application of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) for a group of judges, prosecutors and advocates from EU countries. The purpose of the training, organized in Copenhagen by the European Institute of Public Administration, was to identify the most important problems...

“We have been cooperating with Kacper, Paweł, Ula and Ewa for several years. They are excellent lawyers, we are proud to have them in our team” – says legal advisor Artur Sidor, Partner at the Pietrzak Sidor & Partners Law Firm. Advocates Kacper Florysiak, Paweł Osik and Urszula Podhalańska...

“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 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...

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...

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, 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...

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...