La prise à partie in the French Code of civil procedure of 1806 and the question of the extent of judges’ legal liability in the first half of the 19th century in the Polish territories

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Pubblicato

2026-01-13

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Sezione

Itinerari

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63277/gsc.v37i.4502

Autori

  • Anna Klimaszewska University of Gdańsk

Parole chiave:

prise à partie, responsabilità giuridica dei giudici, Codice di procedura civile, Regno di Polonia, istituto trapiantato

Abstract

The institution of judges’ civil liability has been the subject of a heated debate as of late in Poland. It was sparked by a bill counter-draft containing a proposal of financial liability of judges for rulings that grossly violate the law, presented in 2017 by the First President of the Supreme Court Małgorzata Gersdorf in reaction to the reforms of the judiciary system introduced by the current Polish government and to their criticism. Civil liability of judges, even though it was a shocking proposal to the contemporary commentators, was first introduced in the Polish territories along with the implementation of the French Code of Civil Procedure (« prise à partie »). This institution was entirely unknown in the Polish legal system. Moreover, the implementation of the Code of Civil Procedure, hotly opposed, was done hastily and haphazardly. The objective of the present article is to analyze the reactions to this institution of the legislator and representatives of the legal science – to analyze how, on these two planes, « prise à partie » was handled and what shape this institution took upon its transplantation onto the Polish substrate.

 

Biografia autore

Anna Klimaszewska, University of Gdańsk

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Chair of Legal History, Faculty of Law and Administration.