The publisher of ‘Court Review’ [Przegląd Sądowy] is Wolters Kluwer Polska Sp. z o.o. The company is a part of the international publishing house, Wolters Kluwer, which, as a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), https://publicationethics.org, applies this organization’s standards and recommendations in the publishing process.
The journal contains reviewed academic texts (articles and commentaries). All articles submitted for publication in the journal are examined for compliance with the principles of ethics, integrity, value and academic utility.
The Code of Ethics in publishing and the principles of publication integrity in ‘Court Review’ can be found at: Ethical principles regarding publications in academic journals. When sending the article to the editorial office, the author declares that he/she has read these principles and agrees to abide by them.
The editorial office accepts articles in Polish and in English; the publication of articles in a different language requires prior agreement and the individual consent of the editorial office and the publisher.
The journal’s mission
‘Court Review’ presents articles (approx. 6–8 per issue), as well as commentaries on judgments of the Constitutional Tribunal, the Supreme Court in civil and criminal cases, the Supreme Administrative Court and the voivodship administrative courts, as well as a review of judgments.
This is the most opinion-forming monthly journal devoted to legal issues of the justice system. It has enabled several generations of lawyers to learn about the latest directions of development and interpretation of Polish law. Issues addressed in Court Review include so-called case law, focusing on matters regarding proceedings before the ordinary courts, the administrative courts, the Supreme Court and the Supreme Administrative Court. Current issues related to the application of European law and comparative law are also discussed.
The authors are outstanding academics and practitioners, as well as young law students. Publication in ‘Court Review’ is a kind of exaltation for representatives of the academia and the legal profession and especially for young academics. The high professional standard of the journal is guaranteed by the editorial board consisting of law professors and Supreme Court judges, as well as a group of carefully selected reviewers – recognized experts in the field covered by the given publication.
The journal has been organizing the ‘Court Review’ Competition for the most useful legal book in the practice of the administration of justice since 2009. More at: https://www.wolterskluwer.com/pl-pl/solutions/czasopisma/konkursy
History of the journal
The title ‘Court Review’ has been known since 1991. The history of 'Court Review' and its predecessors dates back over 80 years to 1944. From 1944 to 1950, the monthly was named Democratic Legal Review [Demokratyczny Przegląd Prawniczy]. It was a continuation of the pre-WWII legal thought of eminent professors of law and legal practitioners. The change of the journal’s title to New Law [Nowe Prawo] (1950–1991) was almost certainly a manifestation of the legal and structural transformations in Poland, even though efforts were made to remain with the old standards. The editors-in-chief were lawyers with great authority and outstanding academic achievements, including Prof. Zbigniew Resich. Prof. Dr. Hab. Tadeusz Ereciński from the University of Warsaw, author of numerous academic publications, a long-standing justice and president of the Supreme Court, where he headed the work of the Civil Chamber (currently retired) has held this position since 1991.
Financing, fees:
• the journal is financed by the publisher with its own funds, including funding from subscriptions;
• royalties are paid for publications in ‘Court Review’;
• the journal does not collect fees from authors for closed access publications.
Open access policy:
• the ‘Court Review’ quarterly is available through hybrid access, i.e. partially closed and partially open;
• articles are published in the open access system at the request of the authors in accordance with Wolters Kluwer Polska’s principles of open access publication.
Points, databases:
• Authors receive 70 points (according to the Annex to the Communication of the Minister of Science of 5 January 2024, regarding the list of academic journals and reviewed materials from international conferences, issued on the basis of Article 267(3) of the Act on Higher Education and Science of 20 July 2018, Polish Journal of Laws of 2023, item 742, as amended) for publication in ‘Court Review’.
• The journal is included in the international European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences (ERIH+) database.
• The journal is indexed in the ICI Journals Master List database for 2024 (ICV 2024 = 64.69).
• The journal is indexed in the LEX database.
For authors
Authors should read the procedure for publication in WKP journals, the rules for submitting materials to 'Court Review' ('Conditions for accepting articles for publication' section), and the review process ('Review Procedure' section) before submitting a manuscript to ‘Court Review’. The editorial office accepts original manuscripts written by the authors themselves. The submission of a manuscript to the editorial office constitutes consent to the review process, the editorial work, the sharing of the personal data contained in the affiliation and the publication of the article after it has been accepted for publication. The principles of ethics that apply to authors, reviewers and the editorial office are posted in the ‘Ethical principles’ section.