The Issue of the Office of Justice of the Peace in the Work of the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic in Light of Parliamentary Bills and Interpellations
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RIS BIB ENDNOTEZagadnienie sądów pokoju w pracach Sejmu II Rzeczypospolitej w świetle wniosków i interpelacji poselskich
Publication date: 12.2021
Cracow Studies of Constitutional and Legal History, Volume 14 (2021), Volume 14, Issue 4, pp. 453 - 472
https://doi.org/10.4467/20844131KS.21.041.14467Authors
Zagadnienie sądów pokoju w pracach Sejmu II Rzeczypospolitej w świetle wniosków i interpelacji poselskich
The justices of the peace were one of the forms of society’s participation in the judiciary in the Second Polish Republic. This institution was inherited from the former partitioning states and did not exist throughout the country. Justices of the peace were provided for by the Act’s provisions amending the Law on the System of Ordinary Courts, but its requirements have been never implemented. Justices of the peace ended their activity in 1929, but their formal liquidation only occurred in 1938. In interwar Poland justices of the peace were not a form of public participation in the judiciary. They were in fact judges with significantly lower substantive competencies than professional judges.
Contrary to the provisions of the Constitution of 1921, justices of the peace were not elected by popular vote. The article deals with the extensive debates that took place in the Sejm regarding the selection of justices of the peace, and their role in the judiciary of the Second Republic of Poland, especially in its first period (1919–1928), when it was a problem of great interest to parliamentarians. This is evidenced by the numerous interpellations and parliamentary bills that the parliamentarians submitted, which the author analyses and quotes. On this basis, he concludes that the institution of justice of the peace was not supported by deputies, especially from among the agrarian and socialist parties. Often, justices of the peace were (in interpellations) accused of corruption, nepotism, and incompetence. The solution to this problem was seen in the full admission of society to participate in the judiciary, e.g. in the forms of justices of the peace, jury courts and lay judges.
Information: Cracow Studies of Constitutional and Legal History, Volume 14 (2021), Volume 14, Issue 4, pp. 453 - 472
Article type: Original article
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Zagadnienie sądów pokoju w pracach Sejmu II Rzeczypospolitej w świetle wniosków i interpelacji poselskich
The Issue of the Office of Justice of the Peace in the Work of the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic in Light of Parliamentary Bills and Interpellations
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
Published at: 12.2021
Article status: Open
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND
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