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7 Baltic J.L. & Pol. 1 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/bjlp7 and id is 1 raw text is: BALTIC JOURNAL OF LAW & POLITICS VOLUME 7, NUMBER 1 (2014) ISSN 2029-0454 http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/bj p Cit.: Baltic Journal of Law & Politics 7:1 (2014): 1-11 DOI: 10.2478/bjlp-2014-0001 TOWARDS AN AMERICAN MODEL OF CRIMINAL PROCESS: THE REFORM OF THE POLISH CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE Monika Roclawska Ph.D. Student Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Faculty of Law (Poland) Contact information Address: UI. Wkadyskawa Bojarskiego 3, 87-100 Torun, Poland Phone: +48 606 916 654 E-mail address: rolos@poczta.fm Adam Bulat Ph.D. Student Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Faculty of Law (Poland) Contact information Address: UI. Wkadyskawa Bojarskiego 3, 87-100 Toru, Poland Phone: +48 697 150 871 E-mail address: adam.bulat@vp.pl Received: December 30, 2013; reviews: 2; accepted: May 5, 2014. ABSTRACT In September 2013, the Polish Parliament passed an amendment to the Code of Criminal Procedure. The legislators decided to expand a number of adversarial elements present in current Polish criminal proceedings. When these changes come into effect (July 1, 2015), Polish criminal procedure will be similar to American regulations, in which the judge's role is to be an impartial arbitrator, not an investigator. The authors of the article describe the meaning of the principle of adversarial trial in Poland. They also emphasized relations between this principle and the concept of material truth. The changes established by the amendment are shown in perspective of the American definition of adversarial trial. The authors analyze the reform and attempt to predict the problems with new regulations in practice.

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