It has been recently adopted under Polish law that the determinant of death is both the brain death criterion, tantamount to the permanent and irreversible cessation of its function, and the equally valid circulatory criterion. This means that the determination of brain death is not indispensable to pronounce a person dead, because the irreversible cessation of circulation is sufficient in this respect. The purpose of this article is to present current developments in Polish law against the comparative, historical and medical background.
The article looks at the problem of tort liability for a failure to render assistance and compares the legal approaches to this issue. There are no European legal systems that regulate such a duty to render assistance directly in the provisions of private law. This is generally because most of them (with the exception of common law countries) have criminal law provisions that penalize a failure to rescue another person in need of assistance. This raises the question of the impact of criminal law on liability in private law. The paper discusses this issue in detail, accepting the opinion that, in those legal systems where a failure to render assistance is punishable as a criminal offence, the provisions of criminal law should determine the conditions and prerequisites for rendering assistance in private law and establish the boundaries of liability in tort law. In addition, the article aims to present universal guidelines that might be useful for courts in order to establish tort liability in other cases of a failure to render assistance.
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A will made on board a ship or an aircraft (often referred to as travel will) is regulated in Polish law in Article 953 of the Polish Civil Code of 1964. Since this regulation has never been applied in practice and because of interpretative doubts related to it, as well as the standards of conduct of the Polish carriers, unaware of the existence of this type of will, the Polish literature suggests that it should be removed from the Civil Code. Also, a proposal by the Polish government from 2022 provides for the removal of this type of will from the Civil Code. The removal of the travel will from the Civil Code may be supported by arguments derived from comparative law. A number of European legislations contain forms of wills that can only be drawn up while travelling on a ship (more often) or by aircraft (less often). However, they are criticized in the literature. Emphasis is placed on the fact that wills of this nature are not used in practice, and arguments are presented referring to the lack of economic rationality of this solution. Moreover, a comparative analysis shows first of all that the creation of the possibility to draw up a will in a specific form for persons travelling by sea or air is not obvious. There are no obstacles preventing a traveller from drawing up such a will on board a ship or an aircraft in holographic form, or to draw up a will in public form (e.g. in the notary’s office) before starting the voyage. On the other hand, in cases of emergency it is admissible to draw up a will in a specific form (e.g. an oral will). In practice, in emergency situations involving a shipwreck or a plane crash, in most cases a travel will drawn up on paper will be destroyed.
In Polish law, the prevailing opinion is that wrongfulness in tort law occurs when a given behaviour contradicts the norms included in the provisions of law and the principles of social coexistence. The latter notion is understood as non-legal norms of behaviour existing in the society, including mainly moral norms. The aim of the study is to present how the concept of wrongfulness is interpreted in the jurisprudence of Polish common courts and whether the concepts expressed in the Polish doctrine and jurisprudence of the Supreme Court actually ‘translate’ in any way into the jurisprudence of these courts. It is interesting to examine in which factual circumstances wrongfulness is in jurisprudence related to violation of principles of social coexistence. To achieve this aim the article will present analysis of judgments of common courts available on the Internet Portal of the Jurisprudence of Common Courts - the most representative and biggest public available database of Polish jurisprudence. The article focuses on those behaviours which the jurisprudence of common courts usually classifies as contrary to the principles of social coexistence: inflicting deliberate damage on other entities and failing to ensure adequate safety measures that could protect those entities from damage.
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