Complaint on the Excessive Length of Proceedings and the Right to “Adequate Amount of Money” for the Infringement of the Right to Trial Within a Reasonable Time – the Failure of the Polish Model of Compensation? Cover Image

Skarga na przewlekłość postępowania i prawo do „odpowiedniej sumy pieniężnej” z tytułu naruszenia prawa strony do procesu w rozsądnym czasie – fiasko polskiego modelu kompensacyjnego?
Complaint on the Excessive Length of Proceedings and the Right to “Adequate Amount of Money” for the Infringement of the Right to Trial Within a Reasonable Time – the Failure of the Polish Model of Compensation?

Author(s): Ewa Bagińska
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Civil Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego

Summary/Abstract: The Author of the article makes an overall assessment of the Law of 17 June 2004 on complaints about a breach of the right to trial within a reasonable time in preparatory proceedings conducted or supervised by a prosecutor and in judicial proceedings. For this purpose, the Author examines the practice of accepting complaints on the excessive length of proceedings and the practice of awarding the adequate amount of money as a compensation for the infringement. She also presents the pilot judgment of the ECHR in case Rutkowski against Poland issued on 7 July 2015. The assessment made from such broad perspective leads to a negative answer to the question whether a two-stage model developed by the Polish legislator has provided an effective protection of the right to be heard by the court within a reasonable time.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: XXXVI
  • Page Range: 27-46
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish