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Has your agent brought in “new customers”?

Who is an agent's new customer? On won-back customers, new products, and the burden of proof for indemnity.

Katarzyna Dzik Marcin Liszka Maciej Rzepka

06.10.2026

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Banking, Financial institution agency networks

How far can the interpretation of the concept of ‘substantial benefits’ go and what are the associated risks?

One of the key prerequisites for an indemnity claim is that the principal continues to derive substantial benefits from customers acquired by the agent during the term of the agency…

27.10.2026

approx. 3 min

Katarzyna Dzik Marcin Liszka Maciej Rzepka

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Banking, Financial institution agency networks

What are ‘substantial benefits’ for the principal, and when do they entitle an agent to an indemnity?

One of the conditions for an indemnity is that, after the agency agreement has ended, the principal derives substantial benefits from contracts with customers brought in by the agent, or…

20.10.2026

approx. 2 min

Katarzyna Dzik Maciej Rzepka Marcin Liszka

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Banking, Financial institution agency networks

When does increased business with existing customers entitle an agent to an indemnity?

An agent may be entitled to an indemnity not only for bringing in new customers, but also for substantially increasing business with the principal’s existing customers.

13.10.2026

approx. 2 min

Katarzyna Dzik Marcin Liszka Maciej Rzepka

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Using artificial intelligence in screenwriting

As artificial intelligence becomes common in everyday life, its substantial influence on the arts is hard to overlook. This article outlines the main issues arising from AI use in literary…

19.06.2024

approx. 6 min

TUTomasz Urbanek

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Labor law, Whistleblowers

Does the law protect pigs better than employees?

After “only” two and a half years’ delay, Poland’s Whistleblower Protection Act will leave Parliament for the President’s desk. Its journey has been bumpy, with emotions running high at the…

17.06.2024

approx. 5 min

Bartosz Góźdź

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Corporate services, M&A, Competition law

Private enforcement — what does it mean?

“Private enforcement” is a convenient term for pursuing claims arising from competition law infringements through private proceedings, alongside and independently of sanctions imposed by the public authorities enforcing competition rules—the…

11.06.2024

approx. 5 min

Łukasz Doktór

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Bitcoin, Technology, Personal data protection

Privacy rights and the EU Regulation on information accompanying transfers of funds and certain crypto-assets

The new EU regulation on information accompanying transfers of funds and certain crypto-assets (the AML Regulation) requires crypto-asset service providers to give public authorities information about transfer participants on request.…

07.06.2024

approx. 5 min

Marcin Liszka

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Disputes

An arbitration clause rendered inoperative by financial difficulties

Supreme Court order of 19 January 2024, II CSKP 897/22

06.06.2024

approx. 1 min

Dominik Wesołowski

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Corporate services, M&A, Commercial contracts

Will artificial intelligence replace corporate lawyers in drafting contracts?

Can AI development and the free, widely available ChatGPT [1] replace a lawyer’s knowledge and experience? I examine a ChatGPT-drafted loan between a limited liability company and its board member,…

04.06.2024

approx. 7 min

Dominik Wesołowski

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Technology, Personal data protection

Privacy – The Underrated Human Right

A few years ago, I shared my growing concerns about the erosion of online privacy with a friend. I passionately criticised the dominant business model on the internet, which essentially…

04.06.2024

approx. 6 min

Gracjan Pietras

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Disputes

Supreme Court order of 18 April 2024, I CSK 695/23

The conditions are imprecise, leaving substantial judicial discretion. Article 191 1 defines the concept circularly: manifest unfoundedness must follow from the claim, attachments, case circumstances and common knowledge. A meaningful…

24.05.2024

approx. 6 min

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