Skarga na wyrok sądu odwoławczego jako środek zaskarżenia w postępowaniu karnym
Complaints against appellate court judgements as a means of appeal in criminal proceedings

Summary/Abstract: The regulations on complaints against appellate court judgements met with critical comments from the vast majority of legal sector representatives as early as during the legislative work. Yet, despite the fact this instrument has functioned in practice for over two years, it has not provided an opportunity to contest most of the arguments questioning the legitimacy of its implementation in the criminal proceedings in Poland, but it has also exposed a series of problems of interpretation which had been overlooked before. Apart from pointing out the mistakes made during the legislative work on the bill implementing the instrument in question, and the consequences thereof, the article discusses the issues associated with the character of a complaint as a legal remedy, and the scope of cognizance in appeal proceedings. Subsequently, conclusions regarding the legitimacy of the implementation of complaints in the criminal procedure in Poland and their influence on the duration of criminal proceedings are presented. Due to the fact that the major work on the article had been done by 1 February 2019, it does not discuss the legal problem presented to the Supreme Court on 7 February 2019 (I KZP 3/19).

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