Detention

The Court Watch Foundation 2024 report highlights the overuse of pre-trial detention in Poland, particularly concerning business executives and company board members. Intended as a last resort to ensure the proper course of proceedings, pre-trial detention often becomes a routine tool. This practice disproportionately affects individuals leading stable lives, such as entrepreneurs, whose isolation not […]

On January 1st, 2023 most of the changes in Executive Criminal Code provided by the Act dated August 5th, 2022 came into force. Some provisions were made effective already in September, 2022. The changes are supposed to, among other things, streamlining procedures of pre-trial detention. A board member who has been detained should be aware […]

Pre-trial detention as solitary confinement, thus the most severe preventive measure, due to the ailment associated with its application, is limited by defining the permissible periods of its duration. In art. 263 of the Code of Criminal Procedure the legislator has regulated the permissible periods of applying pre-trial detention, indicating the basic date for applying […]