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05.11.2015 r.

ECHR: Poland violated the right to life

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) considered the application of Mr Olszewski and Mrs Olszewska and ruled that Poland violated the right to life as it did not conduct an effective investication into the death of the applicants’ son.

30.10.2015 r.

Advocate Urszula Podhalańska distinguished in the “Rising Stars. Lawyers – Leaders of Tomorrow 2015” ranking

It is our great pleasure to announce that advocate Urszula Podhalańska, a partner at the Pietrzak Sidor & Partners Law Firm was ranked 9th in the Dziennik Gazeta Prawna’s “Rising Stars. Lawyers – Leaders of Tomorrow 2015” ranking.

05.10.2015 r.

Artur Sidor is a graduate of the School of International Arbitration at the Queen Mary University of London

Legal advisor Artur Sidor, a partner at the Pietrzak Sidor & Partners Law Firm, has completed a postgraduate course on international and comparative commercial arbitration at the Queen Mary University of London which included such modules as International Construction Arbitration.

25.08.2015 r.

New Draft Law on the Competences of Secret Services May Violate Legal Professional Privilege

Last year, the Constitutional Tribunal ruled that certain provisions governing secret services’ access to telecommunication data (e.g. text messages and phone records) violate the Constitution. The Tribunal demanded that a procedure for destroying data covered by the legal professional privilege (LPP) be introduced. Nevertheless, the draft law on the competences of secret services, in its current shape, instead of protecting data covered by LPP exposes it to abuse from secret services in ongoing proceedings.

17.07.2015 r.

Changes in Construction Law

The amendments to the Construction Law which aim to shorten the implementation period of less complex investments and facilitate the investment process itself entered into force in June. “However, much will depend on the practice of public administration bodies in this area. It cannot be excluded that those bodies will abuse the opportunity to object […] which will mean that the goals of the introduced changes will not be fulfilled,” warn legal advisor Artur Sidor and advocate trainee Paweł Murawski in the newest issue of the Builder magazine.

08.07.2015 r.

New Criminal Procedure

The amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure, which change the current model of criminal proceedings, enter into force on 1 July 2015. “This reform did not come out of the blue. It happened for two reasons. Firstly, criminal proceedings were not fair and, secondly, Poland has a big problem with proceedings which last for years,” says advocate Mikołaj Pietrzak in an interview for Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.