Czynności mające na celu obejście ustawy na tle orzecznictwa sądów polskich
Legal transactions aimed at circumventing statutory law in the context of the case-law of Polish courts

Summary/Abstract: The position that legal transactions which circumvent an act of statutory law constitute a category of legal transactions contrary to the law prevails in the legal literature. However, Polish jurisprudence has not entirely followed this view. In some judgments, courts have distinguished transactions circumventing the law from other legal constructions, including transactions contrary to the law. In the article, the definition of law circumvention, the prerequisites for finding law circumvention, and examples of transactions aimed at circumventing statutory law identified in Polish jurisprudence are presented and discussed. The issue of autonomy and the functions performed by the prohibition on circumventing an act of statutory law in Polish private law in the context of the judgments of Polish courts is discussed in the conclusions. The author believes that law circumvention is autonomous from other private law constructions. It is a legal construction that fills a gap existing between the scope of application of a legal contradiction with the law and the scope of a contradiction with the principles of community life. The scope of the application of the construction of law circumvention depends on the definition of the rule of departure from the linguistic meaning of a legal provision or its part. An analysis of Polish case law allows identification of the important functions performed by the prohibition of transactions aimed at circumventing the law.

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