In this draft position the author states that one of the provisions of the Act on combating unfair competition, concerning criminal liability for acts of dishonest competition in the field of advertising, is inconsistent with the Constitution. First, it provides an open catalogue of punishable acts, which violates the standard of specificity of criminal law. Second, the required elements of an offence were not sufficiently defined and they leave a subject of law in doubt as to whether his or her actions might result in criminal liability. Declaring the contested provision to be inconsistent with the Constitution eliminates the necessity of examining its conformity with Article 7 of the European Convention of Human Rights. Since in the examined case the constitutional standard and the international standard are practically the same, the proceedings regarding the latter should be discontinued.
The position of the Sejm regarding the motion of the First President of the Supreme Court stresses that the provisions of the Act on Vehicle Drivers and the Penal Code which are referred to the Constitutional Tribunal’s review are inconsistent with provisions of the Constitution. The challenged provisions concern the powers of the poviat (district) starost to issue an administrative decision to withhold a driving licence or a permit to drive a tram in specific cases. In its position, the Sejm shared the opinion of the proponent that the assessed norms deprive vehicle drivers accused of violating traffic regulations of the possibility to challenge the correctness of the actions of the control body. Such legal conditions violate the principle of loyalty of the state towards an individual, who, in such a case, is in practice dependent on the arbitrary judgement of the controlling body.
In the minutes of the meetings of the Public Education Council, referred to as the ‘supreme school authority in the Kingdom of Poland’ of the interuprising period, a lot of space between 1845 and 1850 was devoted to the matters of male secondary school students of the Warsaw Academic District. Among many decisions taken in this regard were also the issues of disciplinary penalties students received at that time. The punished can be divided into two groups. The first group consisted of 42 students, including those who, for patriotic reasons, escaped from schools and went abroad, probably to take part in the 1846 Kraków Uprising and the Spring of Nations afterwards. They were all expelled without the right to resume education. The second group consisted of 33 students who violated school discipline or committed criminal offences. Most often, they were punished with expulsion as well as flogging, a practice allowed by the law of the time. The information contained in the article complements the knowledge about secondary school students in academic circulation.
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