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Matched Legal Cases: ['Art. 783', '§1', 'Art. 1215', '§1', 'Art. 1214', '§1', '§2', 'Art. 397', '§1', 'Art. 13', '§2', 'Art. 1215', '§1', 'Art. 1212', 'Art. 13', '§2', 'Art. 47', '§1', 'Art. 13', '§2', 'Art. 370', 'Art. 397', '§2', 'Art. 47', '§ 1', 'Art. 13', '§2', 'Art. 1146', '§1', 'Art. 1148', '§3', 'Art. 392', 'Art. 13', '§2', 'Art. 1148', '§3', 'Art. 1148', '§3']

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Data wydania: 27-10-2016 | Case no.: V CSK 66/16
Data wydania: 28-09-2016 | Case no.: III CZP 40/16
Polish Supreme Court order dated 25 May 2016 Case V CSK 257/15
The term “agreement in writing” referred to in Art. II (1) and (2) of the [New York] Convention also includes an agreement which provides for transfer of the rights covered by the agreement. Submission by a party seeking enforcement of a foreign arbitration award of a written agreement containing an assignment of a claim covered by an arbitration clause thus constitutes a formal requirement for the application identical to the requirement set forth in Art. IV(1)(b) of the convention.
Data wydania: 25-05-2016 | Case no.: V CSK 257/15
Key issues: recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration award
Data wydania: 04-12-2015 | Case no.: I CSK 26/15
Data wydania: 13-05-2015 | Case no.: C-536/13
Warsaw Court of Appeal order dated 31 March 2015 Case No. I ACz 358/15
1. Rulings of arbitration courts, like rulings of foreign courts, may have content departing from the requirements imposed on such domestic rulings by Polish law.
2. The absence of an express regulation with respect to adjustment of arbitration rulings does not exclude such adjustment if as a result of an indubitable interpretation of the arbitration ruling it is possible to conduct an interpretation of the foreign writ so that it would exert the same effects as a domestic ruling by indentifying the relief and its scope.
2. As Art. 783 §1 of the Civil Procedure Code provides for the possibility of including in the enforcement clause, when needed, information concerning identification of the relief subject to execution and the scope of execution, this means that the possibility of the court making an interpretation of a writ of execution in the form of a ruling of an arbitration court is not excluded if it involves only identification of the relief and its scope.
3. Only in a situation where making an objective interpretation is not possible should the application be denied, because issuance of an enforcement order which the execution authorities cannot execute would conflict with public order. Interpretation does not consist of issuing the court’s own ruling, replacing or amending the ruling of the arbitration court, but should only display or make more understandable the intention of the arbitration court already expressed in the ruling—even if it is set forth imperfectly and inadequately defined for purposes of its enforcement—and in this respect help give effect to that intention.
4. It is incorrect to refuse to issue an enforcement clause solely because the award somewhat less precisely describes the scope of the parties’ settlements with respect to the costs of the proceeding.
Data wydania: 31-03-2015 | Case no.: I ACz 358/15
Key issues: costs of arbitration, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration award
Data wydania: 23-01-2015 | Case no.: V CSK 672/13
Data wydania: 14-01-2015 | Case no.: I CZ 97/14
Data wydania: 12-12-2012 | Case no.: V ACz 914/12
Data wydania: 13-09-2012 | Case no.: V CSK 323/11
Data wydania: 18-10-2011 | Case no.: I ACz 1627/11
Data wydania: 20-05-2011 | Case no.: IV CZ 18/11
Warsaw Appellate Court order dated 24 September 2009 Case No. I ACa 995/08
1. The New York Convention does not contain provisions indicating the form in which the parties should make a choice of law governing the arbitration clause. Art. V(1)[(a)] of the New York Convention does not require that the choice of law governing the arbitration clause be made in writing. The term “indication” should be interpreted to mean behaviour by a person in the form of writing, or any other behaviour that sufficiently reveals the person’s intent. Art. VI(2) of the European Convention on International Commercial Arbitration made at Geneva on 21 April 1961 uses the term “indication” without specifying the form, and thus “indication” should be interpreted as any behaviour by the parties indicating their joint intent.﻿
2. It is not possible to conclude a settlement where, based on the nature of the disputed legal relations, the parties cannot freely dispose of the rights. Thus the appellate court holds that a dispute over the effectiveness of an agreement on sale of shares in a limited-liability company is not arbitrable.
3. The plaintiff determines who is a party when it initiates a dispute. The attribute of being a party is purely formal in nature and is not tied to the existence of a substantive legal claim, nor does it determine the jurisdiction of the arbitration court to decide the merits of the case. In a case where the arbitration court finds that it lacks jurisdiction over a “party,” it cannot be inferred that the ruling on the merits of the dispute is binding on that party. The party was not a party to the dispute on the merits because the arbitration court did not have jurisdiction over it.
4. Assessment of procedural acts of the parties in an arbitration proceeding lies within the power of the arbitration court, and a court ruling on recognition of an award may not make assessments contrary to that of the arbitration court, or assessments under the Polish Civil Procedure Code, which was not applicable in the proceeding before the arbitration court.
5. The state court is bound by the ruling of the arbitration court concerning its lack of jurisdiction to resolve specific disputes, regardless of whether the arbitration court’s interpretation of the scope of the arbitration clause was correct or not. It is clear that the arbitration court is authorized to rule on its own jurisdiction.
6. In order to decide on its jurisdiction, the arbitration court must consider the grounds for or against its jurisdiction. This cannot mean, however, that in cases in which the same issues are decisive of both the jurisdiction of the arbitration and the resolution on the merits the authority to resolve the issue of jurisdiction is also authority to decide the merits of the dispute. Otherwise the party would de facto be deprived of the ability to effectively assert the defence of lack of jurisdiction on the part of the arbitration court.
7. None of the provisions of law providing the arbitration court the authority to decide on its jurisdiction and analyze all factual and legal issues necessary to perform this task provides it a priori authority to decide the merits of the case. If the jurisdictional determination is negative, the arbitration court must refrain from deciding the merits of case. Review of the merits in such instance serves only as a basis for the jurisdictional ruling.
8. It is impermissible that res judicata effect of a ruling by the arbitration court would exert effects in Poland with respect to persons not covered by the legal finality of such ruling in the country of origin.
Data wydania: 24-09-2009 | Case no.: I ACa 995/08
Key issues: arbitrability of dispute, arbitration agreement, jurisdiction of arbitral tribunal, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration award
Polish Supreme Court order dated 24 June 2009 Case No. I CSK 538/08
1. Where Civil Procedure Code Art. 1215 §1 states that the court “shall rule after conducting a hearing,” it refers only to a court of first instance, as in the preceding Art. 1214 §1.
2. Civil Procedure Code 1151 §2 categorically states that with respect to enforceability of a ruling of a foreign court, “the court shall rule after conducting a hearing,” with no more specific explanation of the stage of the proceedings to which this requirement applies. Notwithstanding such wording, neither the doctrine nor the precedent has taken the view that a court of second instance is required to consider an interlocutory appeal at a hearing. To the contrary, it is accepted under Civil Procedure Code Art. 397 §1 in connection with Art. 13 §2 that it should be considered by the court in closed session. ... There is no reason to interpret the wording of Civil Procedure Code Art. 1215 §1 differently.
Data wydania: 24-06-2009 | Case no.: I CSK 538/08
Data wydania: 04-07-2008 | Case no.: I CZ 139/07
Polish Supreme Court resolution dated 17 January 2008 Case No. III CZP 112/07
1. In a case seeking recognition or enforcement of an arbitration award issued abroad, insofar as not governed by Part Five of the Civil Procedure Code, including Art. 1212, the provisions concerning trials apply (Civil Procedure Code Art. 13 §2), not the provisions concerning recognition of judgments of foreign state courts.
2. In a case seeking recognition or enforcement of an arbitration award issued abroad, the court rules in a panel of a single judge, and orders outside of the hearing are issued by the presiding judge (Civil Procedure Code Art. 47 §1 in connection with Art. 13 §2).
3. In a case seeking recognition of an arbitration award issued abroad, the court of first instance, when dismissing an interlocutory appeal in closed session, rules in a panel of a single judge (Civil Procedure Code Art. 370 in connection with Art. 397 §2, Art. 47 §§ 1 and 3, and Art. 13 §2).
Data wydania: 17-01-2008 | Case no.: III CZP 112/07
Polish Supreme Court order dated 17 July 2007 Case No. III CZP 55/07
1. Standing to file an action [in a proceeding for enforcement of a foreign judgment] is held by a person that may rely on the ruling in question in the state of origin that is subject to the motion for endorsement [exequatur], while standing to be sued is held by the person against whom the ruling may be asserted, and thus a person that bears the obligation of performing under the judgment.
2. The position of creditor and debtor, as well as legal succession, should be assessed under the law of the state of origin of a ruling, which is obvious because otherwise there could be different treatment of the same ruling and the same persons in different countries.
3. Enforcement of a ruling in the state of performance should be denied for or against a person with respect to whom it would not be possible (or permissible) in the state of origin.
4. Standing to be sued in a proceeding [for enforcement by issuance of an enforcement clause for a foreign arbitration award] is held by a person against whom, under the law of the country of origin of the award, the plaintiff (creditor) may rely on the award for enforcement.
5. In determining the country of origin of an arbitration award, in light of the various conceptions of the location of arbitration, the country that should be considered is either the one in which the award was issued, or the one whose law was applied when conducting the arbitration and issuing the award. The law of the country thus determined becomes the proper law for assessing who is entitled to rely on the specific arbitration award or against whom the award may be enforced, subject to consideration of legal succession, if any.
6. The law of the country of origin of an arbitration award is proper ... for an assessment ... of whether an award that refers in the operative wording to an entity as the respondent that under applicable law does not have legal or judicial capacity or capacity to be sued may be relied on for enforcement against the entity that, in substantive legal terms, should have been indicated in the award as the respondent.
Data wydania: 17-07-2007 | Case no.: III CZP 55/07
Data wydania: 18-01-2007 | Case no.: I CSK 330/06
Polish Supreme Court order dated 9 March 2004 (Case No. I CK 412/03)
1. The concept of “public policy” primarily extends to principles arising under the Constitution and the leading principles of specific fields of law. … Under civil contractual arrangements ... this means first and foremost the principle of the autonomy of the will of the parties and the equal standing of the parties. These principles would have been applied if the Polish court had itself applied the law under which the foreign arbitration award was issued.
2. If a ruling by a foreign court is an example of application of a legal institution that is recognized under Polish law, such ruling cannot be regarded as contrary to the fundamental principles of the legal order, and Civil Procedure Code Art. 1146 §1(5) is no barrier to recognition of the ruling by the foreign court.
Data wydania: 09-03-2004 | Case no.: I CK 412/03
Polish Supreme Court order dated 20 February 2003 Case No. I CZ 10/03
1. Entry into force of Civil Procedure Code Art. 1148 §3 in its new wording did not exclude at all the permissibility of a cassation appeal in a proceeding for enforcement of a foreign judgment, but only prevented further reliance on Civil Procedure Code Art. 392 in connection with Art. 13 §2 for the permissibility of a cassation appeal in a proceeding for recognition or enforcement of a foreign judgment. From that point, the basis for permissibility of a cassation appeal in such proceedings thus became Civil Procedure Code Art. 1148 §3—with respect to a proceeding for recognition, express grounds, and with respect to a proceeding for enforcement, grounds by way of analogy.
2. In a proceeding for enforcement of a foreign judgment, as well as an arbitration award issued abroad, a cassation appeal ... is permissible on the basis of Civil Procedure Code Art. 1148 §3 applied by way of analogy. An order of the court of second instance concerning enforcement of a foreign judgment and an order of the court of second instance concerning enforcement of an arbitration award issued abroad are subject to review using this appellate instrument.
Data wydania: 20-02-2003 | Case no.: I CZ 10/03
Data wydania: 09-02-1999 | Case no.: I CKN 887/98
Katowice Appellate Court order dated 6 October 1998 Case No. I ACz 841/98
It follows from the very nature of entering into a contract through implicit acts that this may involve only acts that were actually performed by the parties. In a situation where the opposing party denies submitting the dispute to the arbitration court, it cannot be said that an arbitration clause was concluded implicitly.
Data wydania: 06-10-1998 | Case no.: I ACz 841/98
Polish Supreme Court order dated 24 September 1998 Case No. III CKN 628/98
The scope of application of the 1994 Treaty between Poland and Belarus on Legal Assistance and Legal Relations in Civil, Family, Employment and Criminal Matters does not cover recognition and enforcement of arbitration awards.
Data wydania: 24-09-1998 | Case no.: III CKN 628/98
Judgment of the Court of Justice of 25 July 1989, C-190/89, Marc Rich and Co. A.G. v. Società Italiana Impianti P.A.
Data wydania: 25-07-1989 | Case no.: C-190/89