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The confl ict between the right to privacy and transparency of public information is inevitable, and the case law of the Polish courts administration in this regard clearly indicates the primacy of transparency of the functioning of public authorities and persons holding public offi ce. However, this leads to mindless — and in most cases, deprived of a higher purpose — invasion of privacy of public officials and other employees of the public sector. In extreme cases, it may also jeopardize the smooth operation of the state and the safety of its offi cers distorting the purpose and nature of this form of social control. The article discusses the current posts of Polish administrative courts in regard of the confl ict of right to public information and the right to privacy.
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The article aims to indicate the most important issues facing an individual wishing to protect his or her privacy on the Internet. It also describes the evolution of the concept of the right to privacy, which over the years has become one of the most important subjective rights reflected both in the Polish Constitution and in the legal acts of the Council of Europe and the European Union. The text also demonstrates the approach to the issue of the right to privacy taken by both the Polish constitutional and international judiciary. The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, in the cases of Dupate v. Latvia and Brother Watch and others v. United Kingdom, dealt with both the publication of photographs of a public figure taken surreptitiously in a private situation and mass surveillance. The Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg, in its judgments, has often referred to the issue of the protection of telecommunications data, including the question of access by state services to such data (H.K case) and the rights and obligations created by Articles 7 and 8 of the Charter (Kärntner Landesregierung and Digital Rights Ireland Ltd case). The European Union authorities, reacting to the increasingly widespread problem of data flows on the Internet, decided to enact the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The article describes the most important objectives and tasks to be fulfilled by this legal act. In addition, the main problems associated with the use of new technologies such as cybercrimes, cyber surveillance, data theft, as well as cryptojacking and the functioning of APTs (Advanced Persistent Threat), i.e. skilled hacking groups, are also indicated.
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The article examines the conceptual scope and the capacity of the right to privacy. The study analyses the conceptual scope of ways of formulating the right to privacy and its sources in the literature. In the light of this relationship: value – personal rights – right of the subject, the considerations center on proving the fundamental thesis of the article – that the right to family life is an independent value formulated within a framework of isolated personal rights. The considerations focus on the juxtaposition of the two rights – to privacy and to family life – to determine their mutual relationships and prove the thesis adopted at the beginning of the article.
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The article presents rudimentary information on how the right to privacy is understood in the doctrine and case law of the European Court of Human Rights, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, the Supreme Court and common courts. In the first place, the author will discuss protection of the right to privacy in light of the acts of international law and the Constitution of the Republic of Poland. Then, selected judgments linked with the right to privacy in certain aspects will be discussed. The article ends with conclusions on how the right to privacy is understood as well as the observable contemporary threats to its protection.
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In 2016, while testifying before a UK parliamentary committee, William Binney, former technical director of the US National Security Agency, stated that by implementing bulk surveillance programmes, “your government and my government has permitted what terrorists have wanted all along but could never achieve. That is to cause us to restrict our freedoms while also tripping up our efforts to stop them”.Despite the passage of years, controversy about the proportionality of the use of surveillance programmes involving indiscriminate and bulk data collection continues unabated. There are numerous arguments that such measures should not be used in democratic states. Despite the recurring reports of abuse and questionable usefulness of such solutions, there is also no shortage of arguments put forward by proponents of the use of untargeted measures proving the need (or even necessity) for their use for public security purposes.The issue presented here is also the subject of ongoing interest on the part of legislators and the judiciary. The article aims to provide an overview of the evolution of the ECtHR’s position on the use of electronic surveillance, in particular its untargeted forms. However, the article is intended not only to recapitulate the reasoning as set out in recent case law – including the 2021 judgments of the Grand Chamber in Big Brother Watch et al. v. United Kingdom and Centrum för rättvisa v Sweden – but also to prompt further discussion on the relevance of the Court’s position as set out in relation to the most important legal issues relating to mass surveillance. It is the author’s intention that in this way it will be possible to answer the question of whether the current standard set by the ECtHR can be considered sufficient to protect against the risk associated with the spread of modern surveillance measures and their increasing use by public authorities.
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The subject of the article is professional secrecy in practicing the legal profession in American law, with the indication of some differences resulting from separate laws of different states, and in the European Union – taking into account a few exemplary countries. Its sources were described – both legal and ethical, as well as the definition and construction. Confidentiality has been included in the objective and subjective aspect, taking into account different views in the doctrine as to its scope. Bearing in mind the basic right from which professional secrets derive – the right to privacy – the article also includes some of its aspects related to confidentiality.
Cybersecurity and Law
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2021
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vol. 6
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issue 2
193-205
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The importance of the problem of surveillance carried out by state authorities, especially in recent years, in connection with the growing threat of terrorism is indisputable. State authorities sometimes take measures, which involve restricting human rights, especially the right to privacy, justifying them by the need to ensure security of both the state and its citizens. The objective of this article is to outline the standpoint of the European Court of Human Rights (under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights) on the so-called strategic monitoring, i.e. mass interception of data transferred via telecommunications networks and their subsequent analysis with a view to acquiring specific information.
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The right to privacy is one of the fundamental rights of the modern constitution. Right to privacy includes the sphere associated with deprivation of liberty. The author says that there is no need to separate personal interest in the form of a right to a dignified imprisonment, because it contains the personal well-being, which is human dignity. The author on the background of the constitutional catalog of personal property shall render the Constitutional Court of 26 May 2008, which recognized the constitutional complaint of Jack G. concerning the lack of time limits placed prisoners in conditions where the cell area per person is less than 3 square meters. The Constitutional Court ruled that in exceptional situations (eg, building disaster in prison) is possible to embed prisoners for less than the standard 3m in short periods. The rules place the offender temporarily in a smaller cell but clearly defined. The author also emphasizes that the result of judgment of the Tribunal in May 2008. was the resolution of seven judges of the Supreme Court of 18 October 2011 at the request of the President of the Supreme Court in the application dated 30 March 2011 (BSA V-4110-2/11), which asked „Does placing a prisoner in a cell with an area for one person less than 3 square meters it is a violation of personal rights, whether the premise of compensation referred to in art. 448 of the Civil Code in this case is only unlawful or the guilt?” Now the Supreme Court arising from the article 77 paragraph 1 of the Constitution and article 417 of the Civil Code found that the make good damage caused by unlawful action of public authority also includes non-pecuniary damage (harm) in terms of article 448 of the Civil Code, and the fault is not a condition of the State Treasury pursuant to article 448 of the Civil Code. In the text we find the comments indicating a need for sanctions and measures of freedom and the idea that any circumstances, even the emergency can’t be an obstacle to respect the human dignity.
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Following the current situation caused by the coronavirus pandemic, this study brings to light the way in which the traditional school (the notion “school” was used in this paper with reference to all levels of learning, both schools and universities) was replaced, in a somewhat forced way, with online school in a society pursuing the tradition of face-toface education. Given this aspect of e-learning and a possible higher exposure of their private life, for both students and teachers, the study will seek to answer the question: “Does online school represent a limitation of the right to private life?” through a series of legal arguments. However, before an answer is found, the right to private life and the right to education, as seen through Romanian legal regulations, as well as through the perspective of the European Convention on Human Rights, will be studied in detail. Last but not least, the concept of online school will be subject to analysis, from the perspective of both main parties involved in the education act, closely following the concept of private life.
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The article presents a historical aspect of development of the right to privacy in the American legal system. The considerations bring closer the most significant issues concerning the privacy protection presented among U.S. case-law and doctrine.
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The aim of the article is to discuss limitations of right to public information in Polish system of law. The right to public information is one of the most important human right in modern society. Because of the constitutional requirements every limitation of that sphere must respect two constitutional principles – principle of proportionality and necessity. We may distinguish two types of limitation of right to public information a) directly included in the Act of access to public information e.g. right to privacy, business secret and, recently imposed to the act, exceptionally important economic interest of state, and b) the limitations from other acts. International guarantees of that subjective right are the ground for creating polish system of access to public information. Public information is every information concerning public affairs. It is worth to remember that every public official, who is a subject to the Act of access of public information is obliged to furnish that information.
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The aim of the article: The presented study concerns the problem of violations of fundamental rights caused by the law regulation contained in art. 27c of the Corporate Income Tax Act in Poland. This regulation provides obligation to publish information about introduced tax strategies. Yet, it may endanger many human rights and this article focuses on two of them – the right to remain silent, and the right of privacy. The aim of this article is to make an analysis of the standards presented by the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights. Additionally, the standard presented by the Polish Constitutional Court is presented. Methodology: To decode these standards the comparative law method is used. Especially the case laws of these courts are presented and additionally, they are completed by the comparison of the acts that concern similar law institutions but come from different lawmakers. Results of the research: The results of the study do not provide a clear answer. However, they do allow for an approximation of the issue of possible violations of fundamental rights by the analyzed regulation. It is very likely that the analyzed regulation violates the right to remain silent and it is even close to certainty that the analyzed laws violate the right to privacy. The problem is not only the interference in these rights, but in its character as well. Under certain circumstances, interference with fundamental rights is acceptable but must be proportionate. Examined laws are only explained in terms of budgetary balance and the academic world points out that the purpose of this type of regulation is mainly of administrative convenience. This is far too little to consider this interference with fundamental rights imperative.
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In the commented judgment, the Constitutional Tribunal stated that the provisions of laws and regulations providing for the right of officers of many services to search a person or carry out a personal inspection are inconsistent with the Constitution of the Republic of Poland. The inappropriate division of regulations between laws and sub-statutory acts, violating the constitutional requirement of specifying the principles and procedure of limiting the rights and freedoms of the individual at the level of a law, was rightly ques-tioned. The Tribunal also referred to the obligation to ensure effective mechanisms of protection of individuals against unjustified interference with their rights through the introduction of effective measures of appeal against undertaken actions. Due to the narrow scope of the Ombudsman’s request initiating proceedings before the Tribunal, the consideration was limited only to certain aspects of searches and personal inspection. However, valuable, albeit fragmentary, references to the essence of these activities and their nor-mative shape, desirable from the constitutional perspective, can be found in the judgement.
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2019
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vol. 12
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issue 19
53-75
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La législation de l’UE fixe certaines exigences en ce qui concerne le traitement des données à des fins de commercialisation directe. Ces exigences figurent notamment dans le règlement 2016/679 et la directive 2002/58/CE. L’utilisation des moyens de communications électroniques à des fins de commercialisation directe a une influence tant sur les droits des entrepreneurs que sur ceux de leurs clients; il est donc essentiel d’interpréter correctement le droit communautaire en la matière, de le transposer correctement en droit national et de le faire appliquer correctement dans les États membres. Le présent article analyse la conformité du droit polonaise avec le droit communautaire en ce qui concerne l’utilisation de moyens de communication électroniques pour la commercialisation directe de produits ou de services similaires à des produits ou services précédemment vendus ou fournis par la même entité. Il y a beaucoup de doutes à cet égard. L’évaluation correcte de la législation polonaise à travers l’interprétation des règles pro-UE est cruciale car la législation polonaise prévoit des sanctions sévères en cas de violation des dispositions concernant l’utilisation des moyens de communication électroniques à des fins de la commercialisation directe.
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EU law sets out some requirements in respect of data processing for direct marketing purposes. These requirements are included in particular in Regulation 2016/6791 and Directive 2002/58/EC2. The use of electronic communications means for direct marketing purposes has an impact on both the entrepreneurs and their clients’ rights, therefore, accurate interpretation of EU law in this respect and an appropriate implementation of EU law into national law in Member States as well as its appropriate application in practice, are essential. This article provides an analysis of the conformity of Polish law with EU law in respect of the use of electronic means of communication for the direct marketing of products or services similar to products or services previously sold or provided by the same entity. There are a lot of doubts in this regard. The correct evaluation of Polish law with the use of pro-EU rules interpretation is crucial, because Polish law provides severe sanctions for the infringement of provisions concerning the use of electronic means of communications for direct marketing purposes.
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More than one hundred years after the first definitions of the right to privacy, the content of this right and the limits of its protection are still being discussed and disputed in the doctrine. The protection of human rights tends to define privacy by determining an open list of protected values. At the same time, in data protection law the scope of regulation is determined by terms ‘personal data’ and ‘special categories of data’. The definition of these terms has remained unchanged for over thirty years. The division of vertical and horizontal intrusions in the area of privacy protection in cyberspace is no longer valid. The activities of public authorities and specialized entities such as data brokers have been increasingly complementing one another. Collecting vast amounts of data about hundreds of millions of users may lead to privacy intrusions not only of individuals, but also of entire societies. The purpose of this article is an attempt to determine whether the legal regulations already in force and being implemented, based on the definition of personal data adopted in the pre-Internet era, have the potential to effectively protect against the risks associated with modern data processing techniques such as Big Data. To achieve this goal, the most important features of Big Data are discussed, such as algorithmic knowledge building or incremental effect, and it is also explained how this technology allows legal restrictions related to the processing of different categories of personal data to be bypassed. In the summary, a postulate to develop regulations dedicated to regulating the market for the processing of large data sets is formulated.
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Po ponad stu latach od wprowadzenia pierwszych definicji prawa do prywatności treść tego prawa i tym samym granice jego ochrony są wciąż analizowane i dyskutowane w doktrynie. W systemach ochrony praw człowieka dominuje podejście do definiowania prywatności przez wprowadzanie katalogu chronionych wartości. Jednocześnie w prawie ochrony danych zakres regulacji wyznaczany jest terminami „dane osobowe” i „specjalne kategorie danych”. Definicja tych pojęć jest stosowana w niemal niezmienionej formie od ponad trzydziestu lat. Podział zagrożeń dla prywatności na wertykalne i horyzontalne nie jest aktualny w odniesieniu do zdarzeń zachodzących w cyberprzestrzeni. Działania organów publicznych i wyspecjalizowanych podmiotów, takich jak brokerów  danych, w coraz większym stopniu się uzupełniają. Gromadzenie ogromnej ilości danych na temat setek milionów użytkowników może prowadzić do naruszenia prywatności nie tylko jednostek, lecz także całych społeczeństw. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest próba analizy, czy obowiązujące przepisy prawne bazujące na koncepcjach ukształtowanych w erze przedinternetowej posiadają potencjał do skutecznej ochrony przed zagrożeniami związanymi z nowoczesnymi formami przetwarzania danych, takimi jak big data. W tym celu omówiono najważniejsze cechy big data, takie jak algorytmiczne budowanie wniosków czy efekt przyrostowy, a także wyjaśniono, w jaki sposób technologia ta pozwala na omijanie ograniczeń prawnych związanych z przetwarzaniem różnych kategorii danych osobowych. W podsumowaniu sformułowano postulat opracowania przepisów dotyczących regulacji rynku przetwarzania dużych zbiorów danych.
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W dobie niezwykle szybkiego rozwoju technologicznego szczególne zainteresowanie państwo kieruje ku bezpieczeństwu w cyberprzestrzeni, a dominującą wartością w jego polityce staje się cyberbezpieczeństwo. Tego rodzaju polityka może wywołać szereg negatywnych konsekwencji, do których można zaliczyć m.in. chęć wprowadzenia regulacji prawnych, które ograniczać mogą prawa i swobody obywatelskie, a w następnym etapie mogą prowadzić do stosowania przemocy. Skutkiem tego, ich realizacja powoduje nadmierną, a niejednokrotnie nieuprawnioną ingerencję organów publicznych w sferę prywatności obywateli. Należy też podkreślić, że globalny charakter Internetu sprawia, iż mechanizmy oparte na terytorialności w dość ograniczony sposób zapewniają skuteczną ochronę praw jednostek przed naruszeniami ze strony władzy publicznej w cyberprzestrzeni. Obok dużych szkód fizycznych i bezpośrednich strat finansowych, samo prawdopodobieństwo wystąpienia przyszłych cyberzagrożeń wywoływać może społeczną nieufność i niechęć do pracy z nowymi technologiami.
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In the era of extremely rapid technological development, the state is directing particular interest towards security in cyberspace and cyber security is becoming a dominant value in its policy. Such a policy may cause a number of negative consequences, such as the willingness to introduce legal regulations that may limit civil rights and freedoms, and in the next stage may lead to violence. As a result, their implementation causes excessive, and often unauthorized, interference of public authorities in the sphere of citizens’ privacy. It should also be stressed that the global nature of the Internet means that mechanisms based on territoriality in a rather limited way ensure effective protection of individual rights against violations by public authorities in cyberspace. In addition to significant physical damage and direct financial losses, the mere likelihood of future cyber threats may cause social distrust and unwillingness to work with new technologies.
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The use of information technologies at workplaces is a problematic and relevant issue not only at national, but also at international level because nowadays modern technologies are an integral part of almost any activity but their use is not always based on a clear legal basis or established by legal norms. This article analyses the judicial legitimation of information technology use at workplaces concentrating on the employee's (as a subject's of personal data) right to privacy. The research is done by analyzing the problems occurring among employees and employers due to different interests, by evaluating the situation of the legal and practical implementation of information technology at workplaces, demonstrating the need of having a new technologically determined legal regulation and discussing problems that arise while exercising rights of privacy protection.
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Ustawodawca uznaje godność osoby fizycznej za szczególną wartość związaną z istotą człowieczeństwa. Świadczy o tym przede wszystkim sposób, w jaki jest ona zagwarantowana w Konstytucji Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Godność stanowi bowiem źródło wolności i praw człowieka i obywatela. Jest nienaruszalna, a jej poszanowanie i ochrona jest obowiązkiem władz publicznych. Natomiast prawo do prywatności wywodzone jest bezpośrednio z prawa do godności. Jest ono utożsamiane z władztwem osoby fizycznej nad dotyczącymi jej informacjami, niedają- cym się sprowadzić tylko do wyrażenia zgody na rozpowszechnianie tych informacji, ale obejmuje również szczególną ochronę informacji, które zazwyczaj nie są chronione przed dostępem innych ludzi. Zachowanie przez człowieka godności wymaga bowiem poszanowania jego sfery czysto osobistej (prywatnej), tak by nie był on narażony na konieczność „bycia z innymi” czy „dzielenia się z innymi” swoimi przeżyciami czy doznaniami o intymnym charakterze.
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In the eyes of a legislator, dignity of an individual is a special value associated with the essence of humanity. This is mainly presented by the way in which it is guaranteed by the Constitution of the Republic of Poland. This is because dignity is a source of freedom and rights of man and citizen. It is inviolable and must be respected and protected by public authorities. Whereas the right to privacy derives directly from the right to dignity. It is identified with an individual’s sovereignty over information related to it, which cannot be reduced only to giving consent to information distribution, but also includes special protection of information which, typically, is not protected against other people’s access. Man’s dignity requires respecting his purely personal sphere (private) so that he is not exposed to the need for “being with others” or “sharing with others” his experiences or intimate situations.
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Opracowanie jest analizą regulacji przeszukania i kontroli osobistej wraz z próbą ustalenia ich poziomu gwarancyjności oraz spójności. Analizie poddano również instytucję sprawdzenia prewencyjnego jako czynności zbliżonej w swoim charakterze do kontroli osobistej, co ma na celu całościowe poruszenie zagadnienia związanego z szeroko rozumianą ingerencją w prawo do prywatności ze względu na konieczność ochrony porządku i bezpieczeństwa publicznego. Celem artykułu jest próba znalezienia optymalnego rozwiązania pozwalającego ograniczyć nadużycia w zakresie stosowania tych instytucji. Ponadto artykuł poddaje ocenie aktualną regulację tych instytucji oraz zakreśla granice ich stosowania, po to by zapewnić wystarczające gwarancje osobom dotkniętym negatywnymi skutkami wskazanych czynności.
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The article provides an analysis of search and personal control regulations along with an attempt to determine their level of guarantee and consistency. The institution of preventive checking was also analyzed as similar in nature to personal control. The paper aims at comprehensively addressing the issue of broadly understood interference with the right to privacy motivated by the need to protect public order and security. The author attempts to find the optimal regulation which guarantees the reduction of abuse of powers vested in the investigating authorities. In addition, the article assesses the current regulation of the above-mentioned institutions and outlines the limits of their application in order to provide sufficient guarantees for persons affected by them.
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Celem pracy jest przedstawienie przez pryzmat orzeczeń Europejskiego Trybunału Praw Człowieka najważniejszych problemów, jakie pojawiły się w ostatnich latach na tle dziennikarskich sprawozdań z przebiegu rozpraw sądowych. Metody badań: w zakresie analizy tekstów normatywnych i wywodów Europejskiego Trybunału Praw Człowieka wykorzystano całą paletę metod prawniczych, wśród nich metodę egzegezy tekstu prawnego i prawniczego według wskazań koncepcji derywacyjnej, czemu towarzyszyła analiza lingwistyczna, w ujęciu zarówno topiczno-retorycznym, jak i proceduralnym. Konieczne było odniesienie się do hermeneutyki prawniczej jako metody wyjaśniania tekstu. Wykorzystano także metodę leksykalną oraz, w mniejszym stopniu, metodę porównawczą, pozwalającą na przedstawienie głębokich aksjologicznych źródeł systemu prawnego. Pomocną okazała się również analiza instytucjonalno-prawna. Wyniki i wnioski: przeprowadzone badania dowodzą, że obowiązki, jakie spoczywają na dziennikarzach pełniących funkcję sprawozdawców sądowych, są niezwykle poważne, a z ich istnienia oraz uwarunkowań, w jakich one funkcjonują, świat dziennikarski – jak się wydaje – nie do końca zdaje sobie sprawę. Odnosi się to w szczególności do publikacji fotografii i wizerunków zarówno oskarżonych, jak i innych osób, których dotyczy postępowanie sądowe, ponadto do publikacji dokumentów, zdjęć z akt sprawy, a także kwestii nagrań. Wartość poznawcza: przedstawione judykaty powinny uświadomić osobom pełniącym funkcję sprawozdawców z przebiegu procesów oraz tym, którzy dopiero podejmują się tej roli, jakim wyzwaniom przyjdzie im sprostać w trakcie wykonywania tej pracy.
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The aim of the study is to present the most important problems that have emerged in recent years against the background of journalistic reports on the course of court proceedings through the prism of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. Research methods: in the scope of the analysis of normative texts and the arguments of the European Court of Human Rights, a whole range of legal methods was used, including the method of exegesis of the legal text according to the indications of the derivative concept, which was accompanied by a linguistic analysis, topical and rhetorical and procedural ones. It was necessary to refer to legal hermeneutics as a method of explaining the text. The lexical method was also used, and, to a lesser extent, the comparison, allowing for the presentation of deep axiological sources of the legal system. The institutional and legal analysis also turned out to be helpful. Results and conclusions: the conducted research proves that the duties of journalists acting as court reporters are extremely serious, and the journalistic world seems not fully aware of their existence and the conditions in which they function. This applies in particular to the publication of photographs and images of both the defendants and other persons concerned by the court proceedings, moreover, to the publication of documents, photos from the case files, and the issue of recordings. Cognitive value: the rulings presented should make those acting as rapporteurs aware of the course of the trials and those who are just starting to take up this role, what challenges they will face while performing this work.
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