Urzędnik jako strażnik realizacji ustawowych obowiązków wobec zwierząt
A civil servant as the guardian of complying with statutory obligations towards animals

Contributor(s): Agnieszka Bielska-Brodziak (Editor), Karolina Gil (Editor), Tomasz Pietrzykowski (Editor), Marek Suska (Editor)
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Civil Law, Public Administration, Public Law, Sociology, Sociology of Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: animal rights; public administration; animal protection
Summary/Abstract: The book contains articles written on the basis of the papers presented at the national conference entitled A civil servant as the guardian of complying with statutory obligations towards animals (Katowice, September 26, 2014), addressed to the public service workers and NGO activists. The authors would like the book to provide help in solving everyday legal problems. The organizers of the conference and the authors of some part of the papers are students who have been active members of the Scientific Society for Animal Rights and the Animal Rights Section of the Student Legal Counselling Centre. These two pioneering projects have been carried out since 2013 at the Faculty of Law and Administration, the University of Silesia in Katowice. The members of the Society are active both at the stage of creation and at the stage of application of the law. They analyze current legal regulations and address issues of animal rights – both noticed or unnoticed by the legislator. They attempt to propose and justify a favourable for animals interpretation of various regulations of Polish law, and seek out the possibility to correct and simplify legal procedures. Each year the society carries out educational programmes aimed at promoting the protection of animal rights. The following are among numerous undertaken actions: a training conference for the volunteers of NGOs, a course in humanitarian protection of animal for lawyers and legal apprentices, a course for the civil servants of the department for combating economic crime of the Regional Police Headquarters in Katowice and municipal and district police stations of the garrison of Silesia, as well as several national scientific conferences and seminars. Within the framework of the Animal Rights Section of the Student Legal Counselling Centre, the students provide free legal assistance to NGOs, and – extemporaneously – to other organizations and individuals. The experience gained by the students through their participation in the work of the Society or the Section has become a canvas for each part of this collective work. The topics of the chapters – selected by the authors themselves – focus on the analysis of the legal problems posed by the practical application of regulations concerning widely understood animal rights in the sphere of the public service.The book is addressed not only to the public service officers but also to the members and employees of non-governmental organizations whose statutory objective consists in the protection of animals.

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