Preparatory sessions in civil cases before the court of first instance

Abstract

The article discusses the preparatory session institution, which is one of the new solutions introduced by the Act of 4 July 2019 amending the Act — Code of Civil Procedure and other selected acts. Introducing this solution should lead to accelerating the proceedings and involving the parties in the case, but its implementation may cause difficulties. The purpose of this article is to present the changes and their practical application as well as the problems related to them. The conducted analysis leads to the conclusion that if the rules for changing the plan of the trial are too formalistic, they may lead to frequent withdrawals from organizing a preparatory session.