The purpose of this article is to analyse the process of settling accounts with the communist lawlessness with particular emphasis on the nationalization. Polish legislator has not yet adopted a comprehensive regulation on the compensation for property damages caused after the Second World War. For the last twenty years a redress has been made on a very limited scale, mainly by the administrative courts. The article refers to a controversial decision of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal made in 2010, in which the Tribunal undermined the possibility of challenging the post war expropriation cases before administrative courts. This decision is discussed in terms of violating the principle of citizens’ trust in state.
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