Arbitration in Poland

settlement before arbitration court


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id: 20091

Polish Supreme Court ruling dated 14 February 1956 Case No. IV CO 29/55 »

1. It follows from the title of Book III and from the first sentence of Civil Procedure Code Art. 510 that the petition provided for in this chapter is applicable only to arbitration awards, and via such petition it is possible only to seek to set aside an award. Such petition cannot be extended by analogy to apply also to a settlement, as the role of the arbitration court in conclusion of a settlement is limited to accepting and documenting the settlement, and thus the settlement does not contain any of the elements constituting the essence of a judicial determination.

2. A party rightly disputing the validity of a settlement is not in any respect bound by the settlement, but should assert such invalidity not by relying on Civil Procedure Code Art. 510, but by other means. An action for a declaration of the invalidity of the settlement will serve this end, or an action based on Civil Procedure Code Art. 573 if the party wishes to restrict itself to depriving the settlement of its enforceability, although in such instance the time limits provided in Art. 573 §1(2) will not apply because they are strictly tied to the res judicata effect of a judgment, which settlements do not have.

3. Absolute invalidity, which would deprive an award or settlement of the character of a judicial act even without the need to challenge the award, would come into play if persons were sitting as arbitrators who had not actually been appointed as such.

4. Under Civil Procedure Code Art. 508 §1, arbitration awards as well as settlements concluded before an arbitration court are equivalent to state court judgments. Thus with respect to an undertaking to make declarations of will, they exert the same effects as state court judgments.

Case no.: IV CO 29/55  

Key issues: petition to set aside arbitration award, settlement before arbitration court


id 30033

Allerhand Maurycy

Arbitration in the Transition Period [Original title: Sąd polubowny w okresie przejściowym]

Głos Prawa 1933, No. 4, p. 188-201


Key issues: arbitrator, arbitration award, arbitration clause, recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, settlement before arbitration court


id 30886

Błaszczak Łukasz

Arbitration Award in Civil Proceedings [Original title: Wyrok sądu polubownego w postępowaniu cywilnym]

Warszawa 2010, pp. 505


Key issues: arbitration award, petition to set aside arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration award, settlement before arbitration court


id 30461

Brzeszczyńska Stella

Tax Consequences of a Settlement Entered into Before an Arbitration Court [Original title: Skutki podatkowe ugody zawartej przed sądem polubownym]

Doradztwo Podatkowe 1999, No. 2, p. 15-16


Key issues: settlement before arbitration court


id 30952

Pazdan Maksymilian, Sołtysiński Stanisław, Wardyński Tomasz, Włodyka Stanisław, Okolski Józef, Całus Andrzej

A Commemorative Volume for 60 years of the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw [Original title: Księga pamiątkowa 60-lecia Sądu Arbitrażowego przy Krajowej Izbie Gospodarczej w Warszawie]

Warszawa 2010, pp. 887


Key issues: general works


id 30694

Franusz Anna

Settlement in Mediation and Arbitration Proceedings [Original title: Ugoda w postępowaniu mediacyjnym i arbitrażowym]

[in:] Dorota Czura-Kalinowska (ed.), Mediation and Arbitration as a Means of Amicable Dispute Resolution [Mediacja i arbitraż jako sposoby polubownego rozstrzygania sporów], Poznań 2009, p. 205-222


Key issues: settlement before arbitration court


id 30121

Goettel Aleksy

Settlements Entered into in Arbitration and Mediation Proceedings as the Object of Taxation with the Tax on Civil-Law Transactions [Original title: Ugody zawierane w postępowaniu arbitrażowym i mediacyjnym jako przedmiot opodatkowania podatkiem od czynności cywilnoprawnych]

[in:] Jan Olszewski (ed.), Arbitration and Mediation - Practical Aspects of Application of Provisions. Conference materials (Iwonicz-Zdrój 18-20.10.2007) [Arbitraż i mediacja. Praktyczne aspekty stosowania przepisów. Materiały konferencyjne (Iwonicz Zdrój, 18-20.10.2007 r.)], Rzeszów 2007, p. 125-133


Key issues: settlement before arbitration court


id 30076

Kapłan I.

Arbitration (Comparative Outline of the Provisions of the Civil Court Procedure Act and the Civil Procedure Code) [Original title: Sąd polubowny (Szkic porównawczy przepisów U.P.C. i K.P.C.).]

Wil.Prz.Praw. 1932, No. 2, p. 33-36


Key issues: arbitration award, arbitration clause, jurisdiction of arbitration court, settlement before arbitration court


id 31040

Krużewski Bartosz

Arbitral Award

[in:] Arbitration in Poland, Warszawa 2011, p. 101-110


Key issues: settlement before arbitration court, arbitration award


id 30423

Lapierre Jerzy

Conciliation Proceedings and Settlement under New Provisions on Arbitration [Original title: Postępowanie pojednawcze i ugoda według nowych przepisów o postępowaniu arbitrażowym]

[in:] Ewa Łętowska (ed.), Procedure and Law. Book in Memory of Prof. Jerzy Jodłowski [Proces i prawo. Księga pamiątkowa ku czci profesora Jerzego Jodłowskiego], Wrocław 1989, p. 347-360


Key issues: settlement before arbitration court


id 30136

Lapierre Jerzy

La conciliation et la transaction judiciaire et la transaction judiciaire dans le procés polonais

[in:] Mieczysław Sawczuk (ed.), Unity of civil procedural law and its national divergences. Conference materials, Lublin 22-25.8.1993 [Unity of civil procedural law and its national divergences. Materiały konferencyjne, Lublin 22-25.8.1993, Lublin 1994], Lublin 1994, p. 189-194


Key issues: settlement before arbitration court


id 30135

Lapierre Jerzy

The Issue of Settlement in Civil Proceedings [Original title: Z problematyki ugody w procesie cywilnym]

[in:] Mieczysław Sawczuk (ed.), Uniformity of Civil Court Law and Its National Divergences [Jednolitość prawa sądowego cywilnego a jego odrębności krajowe], Lublin 1997, p. 285-294


Key issues: settlement before arbitration court


id 30688

Morek Rafał

Arbitration Award Issued on the Basis of A Settlement Between the Parties. An Outline of the Topic [Original title: Wyrok sądu polubownego wydany na podstawie ugody stron. Zarys problematyki]

[in:] Łukasz Błaszczak (ed.), On the Issues of Rulings [Wokół problematyki orzeczeń], Toruń 2007, p. 145-162


Key issues: arbitration award, settlement before arbitration court


id 30831

Morek Rafał

Settlement Recorded in the Form of an Arbitration Award on Agreed Terms: in the Rules of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce, the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce and International Practice [Original title: Nadanie ugodzie stron formy wyroku arbitrażowego przez zespół orzekający (trybunał arbitrażowy) w regulaminach KIG, ICC i praktyce międzynarodowej

Biul. Arb. 2007, No. 4, p. 79-100


Key issues: arbitration award, settlement before arbitration court


id 31042

Morek Rafał, Sadowski Wojciech

Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards in Poland

[in:] Arbitration in Poland, Warszawa 2011, p. 125-140


Key issues: New York Convention, settlement before arbitration court, recognition and enforcement of domestic arbitration award, recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitration award, arbitration award


id 30288

Naworski Jerzy P.

Out-of-Court Settlement – Selected Issues [Original title: Ugoda pozasądowa – zagadnienia wybrane]

PPH 2005, No. 4, p. 15-21


Key issues: settlement before arbitration court


id 30960

Opaliński Łukasz

Arbitration in Domestic Trade [Original title: Arbitraż w krajowym obrocie gospodarczym]

[in:] Prace laureatów konkursu im. Prof. Jerzego Jakubowskiego, edycja druga [Works of the Winners of Prof. Jerzy Jakubowski Contest, Second Edition], Warszawa 2005, p. 195-244


Key issues: general works


id 30961

Osiński Marcin

Proceedings Before Polish Arbitration Courts – Selected Issues [Original title: Postępowanie przed polskimi sądami polubownymi - wybrane zagadnienia]

[in:] Prace laureatów konkursu im. Prof. Jerzego Jakubowskiego, edycja druga [Works of the Winners of Prof. Jerzy Jakubowski Contest, Second Edition], Warszawa 2005, p.121-193


Key issues: general works


id 30980

Pokryszka Katarzyna

New Provisions of Polish Law Concerning Arbitration - Selected Issues

Pr. Nauk. UŚl 2009, vol. 1, p. 68-75


Key issues: general works


id 30100

Skąpski Zygmunt

On the Binding Force of the Arbitration Agreement for an Assignee of the Parties [Original title: W kwestii mocy obowiązującej zapisu na sąd polubowny dla cesjonariusza stron]

[in:] Jan Olszewski (ed.), Arbitration and Mediation - Practical Aspects of Application of Provisions. Conference materials (Iwonicz-Zdrój 18-20.10.2007) [Arbitraż i mediacja. Praktyczne aspekty stosowania przepisów. Materiały konferencyjne (Iwonicz Zdrój, 18-20.10.2007 r.)], Rzeszów 2007, p. 41-47


Key issues: settlement before arbitration court


id 30675

Skoczylas Józef

Arbitration in the Amendment to the Civil Procedure Code of 28 July 2005 [Original title: Sądownictwo arbitrażowe w nowelizacji kodeksu postępowania cywilnego z 28 lipca 2005 r.]

[in:] Jan Olszewski (ed.), Arbitration and Mediation. Current Theoretical and Practical Problems of Functioning of Arbitral Tribunals and Mediation Institutions. Conference Materials (Nałęczów Zdrój 8 - 10.05.2009) [Arbitraż i mediacja. Aktualne problemy teorii i praktyki funkcjonowania sądów polubownych i ośrodków mediacyjnych. Materiały konferencyjne (Nałęczów Zdrój 8 - 10.05.2009 r.)], Rzeszów 2009, p. 349-362


Key issues: general works


id 30683

Szumański Andrzej

The System of Commercial Law. Commercial Arbitration. Volume 8 [Original title: System Prawa Handlowego. Arbitraż handlowy. Tom 8]

Warszawa 2009, pp. 1200


Key issues: general works


id 31015

Wiśniewski Andrzej W.

International Commercial Arbitration in Poland. The Legal Status of Arbitration and Arbitrators [Original title: Międzynarodowy arbitraż handlowy w Polsce. Status prawny arbitrażu i arbitrów]

Warszawa 2011, pp. 612


Key issues: general works