News

11.04.2018 r.

Mikołaj Pietrzak appointed as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture

We have the pleasure of announcing that Mikołaj Pietrzak has been appointed as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture (UNVFVT).

14.03.2018 r.

Mikołaj Pietrzak is a leading Polish attorney specialising in corporate criminal defence

Mikołaj Pietrzak was classified in a European ranking by Chambers Europe as a leading Polish attorney specialising in white-collar crime.

13.03.2018 r.

ECtHR to hear the applications of secondary school leavers

The European Court of Human Rights has communicated the case of students whose secondary school final (matura) examination in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski was invalidated in 2011 due to the improper assistance they allegedly received in completing their exam papers.

02.02.2018 r.

Lawyers of Abd Al-Rahim Hussayn Muhammad Mr Al-Nashiri submitted representation to the International Criminal Court

Lawyers of Abd Al-Rahim Hussayn Muhammad Mr Al-Nashiri submitted representation to the International Criminal Court in the Hague in relation to the ICC Prosecutor’s request to the Court for authorization of investigation concerning the war in Afghanistan.

12.11.2017 r.

New grounds for claims of Swiss franc borrowers

The Regional Court of Warsaw has ordered a bank to return over two million zlotys to a client, having ruled that their contract was void. Artur Sidor, a partner at Pietrzak Sidor & Wspólnicy, comments in a piece written for Dziennik Gazeta Prawna: “The judgment is not yet final but one may already speculate that it may be a valid authority for another string of successful lawsuits brought by Swiss franc borrowers, based on entirely different legal grounds as compared to the majority of cases litigated so far”.

30.10.2017 r.

Application of the European Arrest Warrant: a meeting of practitioners

Our firm’s associate Katarzyna Dąbrowska has appeared as a panellist at a meeting devoted to the application of the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) organised in Brussels by the European Institute of Public Administration.