The 5th meeting of the Open PhD Seminar was devoted to the creation of a pattern of procedural fairness as a standard of quality in proceedings before public authorities.
The introductory speech and the following discussion focused on problems of possible a pattern of procedural fairness as a legal and constitutional standard that should be applied by the law-maker creating rules of procedure to be applied before all enforcement bodies (among them competition and consumer protection authorities and sector-specific regulators).
The procedural fairness pattern is determined by a catalogue of values such as: the right to be heard, procedural fairness (an equal access to a proceeding), protection of the interests of the parties to the proceedings, judicial control, impartiality and independence of the decision-making authority.
The discussion was moderated by Prof. Andrzej Wróbel, a judge of the Polish Supreme Court.
Special guests of the seminar were: Prof. Mirosław Wyrzykowski, a judge of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal and Prof. Zbigniew Kmieciak, a judge of the Polish Supreme Adminsitrative Court.
