The communication deals with professional challenges of knowledge management, the specifity of information brokers' work, the way they encourage the development of companies' intelectual capital thus influencing the processes of knowledge management. The authoress would also like to point out an important issue : the necessity of promoting this new profession, and find an answer to the question whether treating the terms 'information broker' and 'knowledge dispatcher' equally is appropriate, as the first term refers to the field of information wheraes the latter- to the field of knowledge.
The paper describes issues connected with the concept and legal character of responsibility resulting from warranty for material faults of product (art. 556 and the following of Civil Code). The institution of warranty is of great significance in commercial turnover. It is applied to the sale of a faulty product and therefore its main purpose is to protect a buyer. Thus, the responsibility resulting from warranty for faults is based on more severe than usual principles of responsibility. The sellers will be held responsible for the sale of a faulty product even if the fault will not be on their side. The paper includes a historical outline presenting the development of responsibility resulting from warranty and some legal and comparative remarks (English law, French law). The paper also discusses a tightened responsibility of a seller for material faults in international trade (Viennese Convention).
The paper presents the issue of a seller's responsibility towards a consumer for legal faults of the sold goods (the sale of stolen goods, etc.). The inaccuracy of the expression 'consumer goods inconsistent with the agreement' which the statue of consumer sales includes may cause interpretation doubts as to whether it contains the notion of legal fault in the understanding of the Civil Code. The author presents his opinion in this respect and conducts a detailed analysis of the issues connected with the above-mentioned responsibility. The paper contains examples allowing him to depict selected legal regulations, interpretations of the civil law doctrine and the rulings of the Supreme Court in this respect.
The paper is devoted to the liability of the Treasury for issuing or non-issuing a decision or a ruling. The amendment of the Civil Code which was implemented on September 1, 2004 led to the regulation of these issues in art.417 § 2 and 3 of the Civil Code. The paper contains a historical background of the institution and describes the functions and premises of the above-mentioned liability. In his paper the author includes examples which allow him to present some legal regulations, the reasoning of the civil law doctrine and the rulings of the Supreme Court in this respect.