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Mikołaj Pietrzak
Mikołaj Pietrzak is a member of a number of international organizations for lawyers including the European Criminal Bar Association, the National Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers in the United States of America and the Legal Experts Advisory Panel for Fair Trials International. Until 2014, he was a member of Perren Buildings Chambers with its registered office in London, UK. Since 2014, a member of the Doughty Street Chambers with the registered office in London. He is a permanent representative of the Polish Bar at the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) in the Human Rights Commission and the CCBE Permanent Deputation at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. He is a member of the International Criminal Court Bar Association. He is one of the founders of the Prof. Zbigniew Hołda Association, of which he is currently a member of the board of directors.
He specializes in criminal law and protection of human rights. His experience includes cooperation with both international Law Firms, and small and medium Law Firms on the Polish market.
He was the coordinator of the “Human Rights and Settlements with the Past” Programme conducted by the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. This programme operated within the field of protection of human rights and constitutionality of lustration and other legal instruments intended to settle accounts with the past.
His experience includes also legal representation in criminal cases and defence in cases regarding fiscal crimes, misdemeanours, disciplinary offences, and liability for violation of public finance discipline.
Mikołaj Pietrzak possesses special experience in lustration proceedings and proceedings before the Institute of National Remembrance. He has also participated in proceedings before the Constitutional Tribunal and the European Court of Human Rights. He regularly appears before the Supreme Court and has been admitted to the List of Counsel of the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
He speaks English fluently and communicates in French.