Towards an American Model of Criminal Process: The Reform of the Polish Code of Criminal Procedure

• Authors: Monika Roclawska , Adam Bulat
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In September 2013, the Polish Parliament passed an amendment to the Code of Criminal Procedure. The legislators decided to expand a number of adversarial elements present in current Polish criminal proceedings. When these changes come into effect (July 1, 2015), Polish criminal procedure will be similar to American regulations, in which the judge’s role is to be an impartial arbitrator, not an investigator. The authors of the article describe the meaning of the principle of adversarial trial in Poland. They also emphasized relations between this principle and the concept of “material truth”. The changes established by the amendment are shown in perspective of the American definition of adversarial trial. The authors analyze the reform and attempt to predict the problems with new regulations in practice.

Keywords

EN

Polish criminal procedure; American criminal procedure; principle of adversarial trial; concept of “material truth”

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Baltic Journal of Law & Politics
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-11

Dates

published

2014-06-01

received

2013-12-30

accepted

2014-05-05

online

2014-10-08

Contributors

author

Monika Roclawska

• Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Faculty of Law (Poland) Contact information Address: Ul. Władysława Bojarskiego 3, 87-100 Toruń, Poland

author

Adam Bulat

• Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Faculty of Law (Poland) Contact information Address: Ul. Władysława Bojarskiego 3, 87-100 Toruń, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/bjlp-2014-0001