Inadmissibility of Civil Proceedings and Access to Court

By instigating civil proceedings a plaintiff intends to obtain a final and unequivocal judgement on the merits regulating a legal situation which had been unclear prior to the lawsuit. However, reaching this goal will not always be possible. The court might be obliged to reject the lawsuit or annul...

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Veröffentlicht in:Access to justice in Eastern Europe 2019-06, Vol.2 (3), p.86-95
1. Verfasser: Agnieszka Golab
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:By instigating civil proceedings a plaintiff intends to obtain a final and unequivocal judgement on the merits regulating a legal situation which had been unclear prior to the lawsuit. However, reaching this goal will not always be possible. The court might be obliged to reject the lawsuit or annul the proceedings due to formal reasons (cf. Article 199 and article 355 of the Polish Code of Civil Procedure). Such situations give room to considerations whether purely formal, procedural decisions violate litigants’ right to court in the aspect of ‘right to judgement’, i.e. a right to a verdict substantively adjudicating the merits of the case. The author analyzes this issue with reference to the so-called absolute procedural prerequisites (Germ. Prozessvoraussetzungen) and their impact on constitutional and treaty-based guarantees of access to court.
ISSN:2663-0575
2663-0583
DOI:10.33327/AJEE-18-2.3-a000014