Proposed Changes to Polish Taxation in 1997

Arbitration is routinely assumed to be the costlier alternative to litigation. That assumption deserves more scrutiny than it usually gets. Shorter proceedings reduce the interest accruing on a monetary claim where the respondent ultimately loses, and they shorten the period a company must carry a dispute reserve on its books — a factor with real weight for listed entities, where it feeds directly into valuation. Cost, in other words, is not just a function of hourly rates; it is a function of how the process is structured. The choices below are within the parties' control and can materially change the final bill.

Cross-border business relations, dynamic commercial environments and complex contractual structures inevitably give rise to disputes.

Two officers, Jonathan Santana and Jason Smith, claim that the film "contains too many real details" taken from a real 2016 case in which more than USD 21 million concealed in buckets, in which they played key roles as investigators.

In the first days and weeks into the unprovoked and unjustified full-scale aggression of Russia against Ukraine on 24 February 2022...

The Act on supporting amicable methods of dispute resolution has been in force in Poland for two years now.

Third-party litigation funding (TPLF) is a financial arrangement under which an external investor provides capital to cover the costs of legal proceedings in return for a share of the proceeds if the case succeeds.

Practice, procedural rules, and substantive law must be reexamined at their basic level when submitting a sworn statement "under pain and penalty of perjury" in a foreign tribunal.

International Arbitration Comparative Guide for the jurisdiction of Poland, check out our comparative guides section to compare across multiple countries

This note, dealing with liquidated damages and penalty clauses, is the second addition to a series comparing civil and common law approaches to commonly encountered problems in international disputes.