Under the recent novelisation of Polish Code of Administrative Procedure it is possible to bring the public administration agency to the court in case of protraction of the administrative proceeding. This shall be noted as a substantial change in administrative law as so far the agency was responsible for the damages caused due to the inactivity. This paper brings closer the issue of the legal responsibility for the damage caused by public administration agency in case of the protraction or inactivity under administrative and civil law. The subject of some concern was also the adequacy of using the notions of “protraction” and “inactivity” in administrative and civil law.
The author considers the relationship between law and morality on the basis of analysis of an actual legal case which has been resolved after nearly 13 years. From the criminal law plane, where this case began, its analysis passes to the civil and commercial legal issues in the concrete context of provisions of § 415 of the Civil Code,regarding the general obligation of every person to prevent damage, and § 424 of the Civil Code, regarding the liability for damage caused by an intentional breach of morality. The author raises the question whether, in regard to the relationship between law and morality, inflexible thinking in civil and commercial relations can be overcome.The detailed analysis of the case is also a critical challenge to all those who are concerned with thinking and behaving so that the Slovak Republic is regarded not only as a declared, but a genuinely legal, state.
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