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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.

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06.10.2026

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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

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Agency Tuesday

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

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Disputes

Where does an opinion end and an infringement of personal rights begin?

Part II: Reputation protected—how does the law safeguard a business’s good name?

30.09.2026

approx. 6 min

Emil Frącz

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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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Corporate services, M&A, Corporate matters

A family foundation — a tool for protecting business owners’ assets

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13.05.2024

approx. 1 min

Katarzyna Lewińska Magdalena Kurzawska Łukasz Doktór

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Disputes

Changes to the Code of Civil Procedure concerning concurrent interim measures and enforcement

[1] Act of 9 March 2023 amending the Act on Administrative Enforcement Proceedings and certain other acts (Journal of Laws, item 556, as amended).

04.04.2024

approx. 1 min

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Bitcoin

Is Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme?

A Ponzi scheme is investment fraud. Its organiser finances payouts to earlier investors with money from later investors, keeping some for themselves. This can continue as long as enough new…

14.03.2024

approx. 4 min

Gracjan Pietras

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