Próby restytucji ogólnego sądownictwa administracyjnego w Polsce w latach 1945–1948

Abstract

The article discusses the work on subsequent draft normative acts aimed at restoring the administrative judiciary in Poland in the first years after the end of World War II. These documents are in the Archives of New Records in Warsaw today. Considerations regarding specific projects were preceded by a description of the legal status and concepts of administrative judiciary considered in Poland in the interwar period. The solutions of that time and the experiences related to their application constituted an important point of reference for both project promoters and opinion makers. The study also addresses the course of the discussion on the issue of the administrative judiciary in Poland shortly after the end of World War II. In its course, in the pages of professional literature, representatives of the doctrine and practice presented various positions regarding the legitimacy of restoring the administrative judiciary, its formula and structure, the participation of the social factor, and the number of instances. Subsequently, draft normative acts from the years 1945–1948 were presented. They include both short projects, consisting of only two articles, as well as extensive projects concerning the location of the administrative judiciary in the Supreme Court. Attention was paid to the course of design works, legal opinions collected in their course, and the shape of the proposed restitution of administrative judiciary. Apart from an analysis of the projects, the authors tried to answer the question why none of the projects, despite the declared support and successive progress in works, entered into force. Analysis of the preserved documents made it possible to create specific and plausible hypotheses about the participant in the design work who sabotaged them. The study uses historical and formal-dogmatic methods.