One of the most remarkable discoveries concerning the evolution of European law against the background of judgments concerning the Polish rule of law is the importance attached by the Court of Justice of the European Union to the perception of the courts as independent and independent institutions. The Tribunal even…
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There are few external parameters that are as important to the legal profession as a rational sense of what we do. Rationality is, in theory, a statement of faith by a lawyer.When this sense of rationality in external reality is lacking, the sense of practicing the legal profession weakens. If…
Laws like this can be assessed from two independent perspectives. One of them is a purely legal perspective related to the purpose set by the statute. Acts are there to achieve the agreed social goal as effectively as possible.
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A good friend of mine once worked as an inhouse in a large, privatized company that had been in a corporate power struggle for months. After each subsequent edition of such a dispute, whether after a shareholders’ meeting, or after a lawsuit for nullity of everything in general, and a separate friend of mine, a competent lawyer with extensive experience, she had only one task: to stick, as soon as possible, five opinions most well-known commercial law lawyers who used to be in Warsaw. Before the other side concludes these opinions.
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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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In the unusual song describing Matejko’s painting “Rejtan”, Jacek Kaczmarski uses – in the mouth of the Russian ambassador to the court of the Polish king – a term that I remember for the rest of my life, “Authority is not a penny here.”
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For some time now, I have been arguing that universal access to the Internet has changed political reality in the sense that politics has become the most democratic in history, which means that idiots have risen to power en masse by choosing other idiots. This is a rather sad effect…
One of the identified reasons for the success of political populists such as Donald Trump is the deception of political correctness. Trump is unacceptable to educated and intelligent people, he says things that are unpredictable and chimerical, he insults people, and so on. For many of his constituents, however, this…
The draft amendments to the commercial companies code introducing the regulation of the holding company is an ambitious undertaking. Contrary to the assurances contained in the justification of the draft, this regulation is highly retail and, if it comes into force, will create a completely new legal situation for related…
Authoritarian leaders of all walks of life have always loved to use lawyers to sell their authoritarian decisions. They disliked lawyers and generally dismissed them as evil and an obstacle. Nevertheless, these authoritarian leaders felt they knew what to do to make what they were doing looked decent. For this…