No. 1 (2020): Discourse of Law and Administration

Issue 1/20, edited by prof. dr hab. Hanna Paluszkiewicz is entirely devoted to the issues of criminal law in the broad sense. It includes studies on current judicial issues - these are the texts of prof. dr hab. Z. Kwiatkowski (UO) devoted to the binding force of the resolutions of the Supreme Court in concreto, Dr. K.J. Leżak (UWr) concerning the interpretation doubts of the provisions on aggregate penalty in the context of the judgment of the Constitutional Tribunal of 11/06/2019 and a gloss of approval by prof. dr hab. H. Paluszkiewicz (UZ) to the judgment of the Supreme Court of August 11, 2020 on the interpretation of Art. 99a and 424 of the Code of Criminal Procedure The remaining articles discuss different but important from the point of view of doctrine and practice issues - these are studies devoted to rhetorical invention and the staseis doctrine in the context of the composition of defensive speech (dr hab. prohibited acts (Dr. D. Owsicka - WSAP in Szczecin), the issue of administrative detention under the Act on Upbringing in Sobriety and Counteracting Alcoholism (Prof. Dr. K. Dudka - UMCS), the costs of criminal proceedings in the light of empirical research (Dr. D. Szumiło-Kulczycka - Jagiellonian University). In addition, the issue of criminalizing the abandonment of firearms is discussed (Dr. C. Kąkol - UZ), signaled comments on the subject of criminal mismanagement (Prof. Dr. M. Szwejkowska - AEH in Warsaw), as well as the issue of double punishment of a collective entity (Dr. P. Ochman - UWr) and protection of the integrity and transparency of the wholesale energy market in Poland (M. Literski, M. Sc., M. Pomietło, M.Sc. - Jagiellonian University). The studies also include statements on very topical issues arising in connection with the first anti-covid regulations or new legislative initiatives - these are texts on criminal liability for submitting a false declaration under the Act on special solutions related to COVID-19 ( Dr. Sebastian Kowalski UZ), as well as a voice in the discussion about jury courts (Dr. Jan Kil - Humanitas University). The invitation to share their reflections was also accepted by authors from outside the country - prof. D.Chankova (S-W University Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria) in a study on new challenges for the protection of victims in Bulgaria and prof. P. Sechi (University of Sassari, Italy) presenting the issues of the Italian penitentiary system. The whole thing ends with a report (Dr. O. Włodkowski - UZ) on a nationwide seminar organized on 04/12/2019 by the Department of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure of the University of Zielona Góra on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Fiscal Penal Code.