Binding of Polish Courts by Interpretative Judgments in National and European Context

Agnieszka Malarewicz-Jakubów, Anna Doliwa-Klepacka

Abstract


The study is of a scientific and research nature, devoted to the most characteristic type of operative interpretation related to judicial interpretation. The subject of the research, carried out using the method of dogmatic analysis of law, is the verification of two problems: the binding of the court of first instance to the legal assessments made by the appellate court and the extent to which Polish courts are bound by the judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union on the interpretation and application of EU regulations. The authors draw attention to the necessity of analyzing the interpretation of regulations, made in the justifications of court decisions. This is very interesting in the context of judicial independence and the great freedom of judges to interpret laws and phenomena. However, it also raises a number of doubts about the extent of the relationship with such freely interpreted content. The scope of the research and the results obtained are international in nature and can be of significant cognitive value to the science and practice of law application.


Keywords


judicial interpretation; the court’s binding legal assessment; preliminary ruling

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/sil.2024.33.3.43-59
Date of publication: 2024-09-27 21:28:02
Date of submission: 2023-08-28 15:28:53


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