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The application by the legislator of the regime of administrative responsibility in light of the jurisdiction of the Constitutional Tribunal of the Republic of Poland
No full textRecently, there has been a noticeable tendency to replace the regime of criminal responsibility with administrative responsibility. Administrative responsibility is objective in nature and has a repressive and ordinal character, detached from guilt. The Constitutional Tribunal, in its jurisdiction, states many times that the regime of liability applied by the legislator depends only on its choice. The Tribunal does not control the desirability or appropriateness of the adopted solutions. The task of the Constitutional Tribunal is only to provide an assessment, if the solutions adopted by the legislator do not violate constitutional norms and values, such as, among others, the principle of proportionality,or the ne bis in idem principle
To have your cake and eat it too: accountability under a preferential voting system
Get PDFInformed by the findings in the economic voting literature and using an original dataset on Polish elections this research breaks away from this established practice and goes a step further by showing how economic conditions allow voters to distinguish between high/low performers and effectively attribute responsibility under open-list PR systems where voters can choose not only among parties but also among individual candidates. By integrating open-list design into the model of accountability this study transforms the way we think about the very act of voting
The disciplinary proceeding – reflections on the Resolutions of the Supreme Court I KZP18/12 of 24 January 2013
No full textThe aim of the study it to discuss the issue of disciplinary proceeding in the context of entity subject to disciplinary liability, the subject matter, the autonomy and the purpose. The author focuses on the ruling of the Supreme Court passed on January 24th 2013, which suggests the application of the rules of criminal proceedings as more appropriate for the subsidiary application of the disciplinary proceedings. Nevertheless the Supreme Court draws attention to another, equally important issue which became apparent in connection with the above – the diversity and lack of consistency of solutions used by the legislature pursuant to a disciplinary proceedings
Reform of Russian Education and the New Law on Education of 2012
Get PDFThe article analyses the innovations of the Law on Education adopted in 2012, which is expected to become the basis for creating modernized education legislation that will allow the needs of the social and economic environment of the XXI century and the obligations engaged by Russia during the process of integration with the European educational space to be met
Human rights and the law of human rights: a positive legal regulation of an ontic reality
Get PDFThe author introduces a fundamental distinction between human rights and the law of human rights which is subsequent to these rights. While examining these issues, the author follows M. Piechowiak and his way of understanding human rights. According to Piechowiak, human rights are objectively existing relationships between a human being and a global good, welfare that is due to him/her. Particular aspects of this global good are what we used to call an object of a particular human right. Therefore, human rights have an ontic nature. These relationships have their normative consequences. It may be stated that these relationships ontologically justify that the norms protecting these rights (actually these relationships) stay in force. These relationships and the norms protecting them can be recognized. Notwithstanding what was stated above, human rights shall be proclaimed and the ontic norms protecting them, adequately recognized, shall be positivised, that is, acts of positive law shall introduce these norms into legal systems
The European Committee of Social Rights in the system of International Human Rights Treaty Bodies
No full textThe aim of this article is to present the European Committee of Social Rights as a supervisory body in the system of international protection of human rights. To this end, the author elaborates upon the system of treaty bodies in the field of international protection of human rights, both at the universal level within the framework of the United Nations,as well as on the regional plain in respect of the treaty bodies within the Council of Europe’s system. The author pays particular attention to the treaty acquis of the Council of Europe on the protection of social rights and, as such, discusses the European Social Charter system. The author emphasizes the particular role of a specific organ, namely the European Committee of Social Rights, within this field. One of its most notable features is the mechanism of collective complaints (fr. réclamations collectives), which was introduced to the Charter’s supervisory system on the basis of the 1995 Additional Protocol. In the author’s opinion, on the basis of the competence of the European Committee of Social Rights to hear collective complaints, it is arguable that this body performs the function of a quasi-judicial organ in the monitoring process, which distinguishes it from other treaty bodies in the field of international protection of human rights
Premises of acceptance of a cessation appeal by the Supreme Court in Polish Civil Procedure
No full textThe paper deals with problems connected with the premises conditioning the acceptance of a cessation appeal by the Supreme Court, in particular the interpretation and practical use of article 3989 of the Code of Civil Procedure. In the first place, a legal institution called a “przedsąd”, a first stage of the process of examining a cessation appeal by the Supreme Court, is briefly summarized. Subsequently, the author explains questions common to all the premises regulated by article 3989 of the Code of Civil Procedure and the connection between those premises and the grounds for a cessation appeal. Next, the author proceeds to interpret the premises governed by article 3989 of the Code of Civil Procedure and explains how they are put into practice. The last part of the paper contains the author’s conclusions: the premises are strongly connected with the public interest and the development of law; putting them into practice demands a lot of work, even from lawyers
Budget reforms in Russia: results and perspectives
Get PDFThe article covers budget reforms in Russia which have been taking place since 1991. It presents both a mutli-perspective and retrospective glance at the modern reforms, and their continuity with regard to other Russian reforms from the historical past is discovered.Changes in the Russian legislation regulating budgetary relations and changes to inter-budgetary relations and the budgetary process are analyzed in details. The article contains a review of program documents describing the course of reform and a prediction of future changes
Polish lustration and the models of transitional justice
Get PDFTransitional justice in the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe concentrates on the problem of the lustration of former secret service officers and their clandestine collaborators and on the question of access to files created by the communist political police. The aim of the article is to present the Polish experience in this field in view of the theoretical framework available in transitional justice literature. Thus, the text begins with definitions of some basic notions connected with dealing with the past. The article also proposes three basic models of transitional justice. The third part offers an account of Polish lustration and public disclosure measures and assigns those instruments to the models of transitional justice. The final section presents some concluding remarks on the evolution of Polish lustration
The Safe Harbour Program – a bridge between the European and American systems of personal data protection
No full textThe article is devoted to a comparison of the American and European systems of data protection and the transfer of personal data from the European Union to the United States of America. The author outlines the problems and then analyzes the regulations in order to identify differences between the two systems. Then, based on the previous considerations, she assesses the effectiveness of the Safe Harbour Program, which was set up to serve as a tool to facilitate the transfer of personal data. The article ends by providing information about the directions of policy changes and work on the new EU Regulation on the protection of personal data