Author Michał Tomczak

I am a lawyer with thirty years of experience, in my first professional life I was a journalist. But in my every life I am most attracted to curiosity, discovering new lands, and secondly - convincing people to do what is wise, good or beautiful. I will also let myself be convinced of these three things.

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Various effects of the Islamic headscarf

An article by Michał Tomczak in the Rzeczpospolita daily (Kadry i Płace).

These two judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union, issued in 2017, regarding the wearing of an Islamic headscarf by female employees gained considerable publicity, although, as is usually the case with publicity, it did not make much use of the understanding of the entire, rather subtle interpretation of European law made by the Court. It seems to me that the right-wing circles especially accepted the message from these judgments that they “finally took up their job”. This is, of course, a somewhat obscure simplification.

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Brawl

The brawl around the Superleague football reveals not only business but also cultural conflicts. It would not be good if the scream of all those who fight not only for values ​​but also for their life and financial positions did not allow us to see the important reasons behind this idea.

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Linkedin and lawyers

In fact, only Linkedin is suitable among social media for lawyers. Facebook can do more harm than help. A professional should answer the question if I would have used another professional if I had found him on Facebook or Instagram, and found out about his four red cats.

Proszę czytać dalej.

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Union

A long time ago, i.e. shortly before Poland’s accession to the European Union, I was at an event of the international legal network to which I belonged. I remember a certain Finn’s name, Henrik Hastö, being intensely warned about what his EU country entered into for a lawyer. I believed him, nodded my head, but rather without conviction.

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Left turn signal (2)

Probably many people ask themselves why we obey the law. In any case, we should ask ourselves such a question, the answer to it is the source of important information about us, it determines our place in the social hierarchy of meanings.

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Kristina

Michał Tomczak discusses in Rzeczpospolita daily a somewhat strange, anti-discriminatory judgment of the European Court…

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Fake gold

Overall, I am glad that Robert Lewandowski is an outstanding footballer, outstanding on a global scale. Probably we have never had such a famous player, I do not want to say – so outstanding, because comparing Lubański, Deyna or Boniek from the old days is so inappropriate that they were not given such a chance as Lewandowski got.
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There was supposed to be a revolution …

The provisions of the AML IV directive seemed to herald a revolution in the anonymity of business ownership. The widespread introduction of the obligation to disclose beneficial owners in companies, the obligation to create beneficial owner registers in individual countries seemed to introduce a non-exceptional obligation to disclose ownership in business. A property that, in the end, always has a first and last name.

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Left turn signal and awareness of law (1)

How should society’s attitude to law be examined? In declarations, polls, interviews? No no no. The attitude to the law, or to the regulatory mechanisms of society in general, must be tested in action. That is, in mechanical, repetitive, unintentional acts, in the first system according to the Kahneman and Tversky typology.

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