Instytucja sędziego śledczego w okresie międzywojennym
The institution of the investigating magistrate in interwar Poland

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the crowning of the works of the Codification Commission working on a draft of the Criminal Procedure Code between the two world wars. The Code came into force on 1st July 1929, introducing judicial inquiry, and police and prosecution investigation to the Polish model of criminal procedure. The article discusses crucial features of investigation and judicial inquiry, the instances that manage them, and the circumstances in which they were resorted to, at the same time pointing to the role that a investigating magistrate had in a criminal procedure, and the dependence of such a magistrate on the prosecutor. A large part of the work is devoted to the discussion of advantages and disadvantages of the position of investigating magistrate, as functioning in the Polish model of criminal procedure between the world wars.

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