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SECTIONIIA
TomaszSokołowski
ProfessorofLaw,AdamMickiewiczUniversity,Poznań
AndrzejMączyński
ProfessorofLaw,JagiellonianUniversity,Kraków
MULTICULTURALCHALLENGESINFAMILYLAW
(POLAND)
A.Introduction
1.ThebackgroundinformationonPolishjurisdiction
PolishlegalsystemhastheConstitutionfrom19971asthefundamentalsource
oflaw.ThehighpositionoftheConstitutioncausedastrongpositionofthePolish
ConstitutionalCourt(CC)whichplaysanessentialroleasacontrolbodyupon
legislation,explainingcontradictionsinlegalactsorrulinguponconstitutionality
orunconstitutionalityofprovisionsoflegalacts.2Becauseofthedivisionofpowers
(Montesquieuconcept)Polishlegalsystemdonothaveasystemofprecedence.
ThejudgementsoftheSupremeCourt(SC)orEuropeanCourtofHumanRights
(ECtHR)havenotavalueoflegalsourcebecausewehaven’tthesystemofcaselaw.
HowevermanyofthosejudgementsarewidelydiscussedbythePolishdoctrine.
SincePolandhasratifiedmanyinternationaltreatieswhichrefertofamily
lawmattersandisamemberoftheEuropeanUnion,appropriateinternational
agreementsandotherapplicablestatutoryinstrumentscreatingEuropeanlaw,
currentlyconstituteelementsofthePolishlegalsystem,andthereforearealso
sourcesoffamilylaw.FirstofalltheEuropeanConventiononHumanRights
(ECHR)andConventionontheRightsoftheChildarerecognizedasalegal
sourceofthePolishlegalsystemandtheirsprovisionscanbedirectlyapplied.3
1Acton2rdApril1997,JournalofLaws[J.ofL.]1997,No.78,item483.
2M.Safjan,“TheConstitutionalCourtasapositivelegislator,”[in:]RapportsPolonais.
PrésentésauXVIIIeCongrèsInternationaldeDroitComparé,ed.B.Lewaszkiewicz-Petrykowaka,
Łódź2010,p.247etseq.
3E.Łętowska,“Humanrights-universalandnormative?(afewremarksfromthePolish
perspective)”,[in:]RapportsPolonais…,p.267etseq.