Czas na podjęcie przez sąd decyzji w przedmiocie wniosku o zastosowanie tymczasowego aresztowania
Time for the court to make a decision on the application of pre-trial detention

Summary/Abstract: This paper canvasses the problem of adequacy of time limit of 24 hours (as defined in art. 248 § 2 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and Art. 41 sec. 3 of the Constitution) for the court to assess the prosecutor’s request for pre-trial detention. Starting from the historical analysis of such a solution and then going through the characteristics of the scope of activities necessary to be taken by the court in such a short time and recalling selected procedural problems, visible mainly in the extensive penal economic cases, it was indicated that such a short deadline does not create general conditions for a reliable assessment of the legitimacy of the conclusion drawn. At the same time, the risk of transferring the effects of such inability to the suspect was indicated. Against this background, two main directions of possible normative changes are presented, including both the time limit itself and the accompanying solutions, allowing to create conditions for a more effective use of this inherently short period.

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