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The rebirth of the Polish state after a long period of partition constituted a great op-portunity as well as a new challenge for professionals in the Bar association. The Barassociation attained self-governing status. This, on the one hand, enabled the group tocreate an environment and to strengthen the social significance of this group in Poland.On the other hand, it created dangers caused by the different traditions which werecultivated in different parts of the formerly partitioned Poland. Another factor contri-buting to the problem was the multinational composition of the Bar. The Bar duringthe interwar years was highly divided ethnically. The Jewish and Ukrainian minoritieshad an especially strong representation. The Bar organizations protected their nationalautonomy. The conflict between the numerous associations, which were formally openfor minorities and practically organized according to national interests, was severe. Thisconflict was especially visible in Lesser Poland. The pressure of professional competiti-on cast a shadow over the Bar’s ethos. Antagonisms based on nationality were presentin the researched period with a varying degree of intensity and appeared in differentforms. The situation was finally alleviated by the act from 1938. The looming threat ofthe impending war also contributed to their appeasement.
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The Bar, as a professional group dealing with defence and representation, has been developing on Polish lands at least since the beginning of the XVI century. However, only in the second half of the XIX century, so already after Poland was partitioned, the Bar association acquired its first self-government organization. The particularly intensive period of development of the Bar took place during the existence of the Second Polish Republic. The issue of legal basis of its functioning was regulated at the time. The old, unsystematic and post partition legislation was replaced with uniform and more modern law created by the Polish legislator. The rules which constitute the basis of the Bar association system were specified. The rule of equality of the legal profession as well as the rule of freedom and independence of the Bar association were the ones which gained the most importance. Furthermore, the issues connected with performing the legal profession were regulated and specified. Among the aforementioned issues were the following: the essential requirements necessary to perform the profession, the forms in which it is performed, the range of legal activities and the possibility of combining the legal profession with other activities, the rights and duties of a lawyer as well as disciplinary responsibility. Consequently, the interwar period was a short, albeit extremely important stage of the legal corporation’s development.
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During the interwar years, the date of the 1 January 1929 constituted an important turning point for the public prosecutor’s office. Until that moment, namely between 1918 and 1928, the legislation of the prosecutor’s office was regulated by the separate legal acts of each of the previously partitioned areas of the country. This varied legal mosaic was composed of Polish and foreign regulations, older and newer regulations, and also they contained outdated as well as more modern solutions. On the other hand, uniform legal regulations were in force between 1929 and 1939. The majority of the aforementioned regulations were included in the ordinance of the President of the Polish Republic from 1929 called Law on the system of common courts. The regulations were further developed in various bylaws, especially in the rules pertaining to the functioning of the prosecutor’s office. Despite these significant differences connected with the sources of the law, the legislation of the prosecutor’s office during the entire interwar period was practically based on the same rules. The prosecutor’s office remained in close organizational connection with the courts’ structure. Furthermore, given prosecutor’s offices were functioning by their respective courts, even going as far as taking the courts’ names. The entire prosecutor’s office had one common Public Prosecutor General in the person of the Justice Minister. And the main rules connected with the functioning of the prosecutor’s office are: the principle of centralism, hierarchical subordination, uniformity, substitution, devolution and, finally, legalism.
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W dziejach międzywojennej prokuratury istotną cezurę stanowił dzień 1 stycznia 1929 r. Do tego momentu, tj. w latach 1918–1928, ustrój prokuratury regulowały odrębne dla każdego z byłych zaborów przepisy prawa. Stanowiły one różnorodną mozaikę prawną, składającą się z przepisów polskich i obcych, dawnych i nowszych, zawierających rozwiązania przestarzałe i nowocześniejsze. W latach 1929–1939 obowiązywały natomiast jednolite przepisy prawne, których zasadnicza część została zawarta w rozporządzeniu Prezydenta RP z 1928 r. – Prawo o ustroju sądów powszechnych, a rozwinięcie w przepisach wykonawczych różnego rodzaju, zwłaszcza w regulaminach funkcjonowania prokuratury. Pomimo tych znaczących różnic dotyczących źródeł prawa, ustrój prokuratury w całym okresie dwudziestolecia międzywojennego opierał się właściwie na tych samych zasadach. Prokuratura pozostawała w ścisłym organizacyjnym powiązaniu ze strukturą sądową, a jej poszczególne jednostki działały przy konkretnych sądach, przyjmując nawet od nich swoje nazwy. Cała prokuratura miała jednego wspólnego Prokuratora Naczelnego, którym był Minister Sprawiedliwości. Zasady naczelne związane z funkcjonowaniem prokuratury to: zasada centralizmu, hierarchicznego podporządkowania, jednolitości, substytucji, dewolucji czy wreszcie – legalizmu.
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The institution of an investigating judge emerged in all three parts of then partitioned Poland at almost the same time, i.e. in the 70s of the 19th century, as the Austrians introduced it in 1873, the Russians in 1876, and the Germans in 1877. The very idea of an investigating judge and its model, however, derives from the legal system of Napoleonic France. During the period between two World Wars, the institution of an investigating judge functioned fi rst, as part of the legislation inherited from the occupant’s legal system, and then as part of the Polish legal system resulting, mainly, from the implementation of the ordinance on the regime of common courts of law of 1928 and the code of criminal procedure of the same year. The function of an investing judge was for and foremost connected with the preliminary stage of criminal proceedings, and the investigation process in particular. However, the main overall task of that stage was protection of an individual’s rights in a criminal proceeding. In the twenty years’ history of the interwar Poland, the role of an investigating judge in a criminal proceeding had been gradually limited, while the prosecutor’s role had increasingly strengthened. Although the prosecutor’s supervision sensu stricto was formally non-existent, a prosecutor could, inmany cases, restrict a judge’s independence by issuing binding conclusions. Such practice was further facilitated by the fact that the Ministry of Justice’s policy was to recruit for the position of an investigating judge from among the least experienced, usually junior judges. Thus the institution of an investigating judge was subsequently subjected to strong criticism by many lawyers, both theorists as well as practitioners of a criminal trial. Its supporters criticised the infl uence that procurators could exercise on the judges and demanded their independence of the former, whereas its critics questioned the very sense or idea of an investigating judge, emphasising that it only constituted an interim form between a prosecuting organ and an independent court and, as such, performed neither of those two had functions suffi ciently satisfactory.
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Modern civil law’s roots can be traced back to the 19th century, when its basic institutions were comprehensively regulated in three civil codes: the French Civil Code of 1804, known since 1807 as the Napoleonic Code, the Austrian Allgemeines Burgerliches Gesetzbuch (ABGB) of 1811 and the German Burgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB) of 1896–1900. In the literature, these codes are commonly referred to as the Great Civil Codifications, as they have been influential in shaping European civil law doctrine from their inception to the present day. Although they were drafted under different political conditions (the French and Austrian Codes originated in 18th-century philosophy of natural law, with its individualistic treatment of private law subjects, while the German Code resulted from the triumph of positivism in the second half of the 19th century), and their original content was subject to far-reaching revisions over the years, their invariable merit lay in creating a legal framework guaranteeing the inviolability of individual rights, based on respect for the individual’s fundamental subjective rights under civil law and respect for the autonomy of the will in their implementation. These rights included: the equality and universality of civil rights; the treatment of marriage as a civil contract; the guarantee of the inviolability of private property; the freedom to shape civil law relations by contract; the autonomy of the will of the individual in disposing his or her succession rights. Yet these rights were accompanied by a whole range of limitations and exclusions, particularly for women, whose legal position in terms of civil rights vis-à-vis men was far from the equality and universality of civil law subjects as declared in each of the aforementioned codes. This handicap was only to be remedied in the century that followed.
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