‘Polish Civil Procedure’ is a quarterly journal of the Academic Society of Civil Procedural Lawyers, addressed to the academic community and practitioners in the justice system. The journal is devoted to issues regarding civil procedural law, including arbitration and mediation, as well as bankruptcy and restructuring proceedings.
Articles, commentaries, reviews of judgments, analyses of practical legal issues, answers to legal questions, reviews of key works, studies on proposed normative solutions and information on events of relevance to the procedural community in Poland and worldwide are published in ‘Polish Civil Procedure’.
The journal’s mission
The objective of ‘Polish Civil Procedure’ is to present views on issues of importance to the practice and study of issues related to the interpretation, application and formation of civil procedural law. The journal is intended to serve as a platform for discussion, an exchange of views and opinions and for presenting proposed solutions to current regulations, as well as directions for their potential future changes.
The editorial board makes every effort to maintain a balance between academic and practical aspects in the materials published in ‘Polish Civil Procedure’.
History of the journal
‘Polish Civil Procedure’ relates directly to its predecessor – the fortnightly ‘Polish Civil Procedure’, which was published in 1933–1939. It appeared under the title ‘Nowy Proces Cywilny’ (New Civil Procedure) in 1933. This was a journal devoted to the theory, interpretation and practice of procedural law and was founded and published by the ‘Biblioteka Prawnicza’ publishing house. The editorial committee included outstanding lawyers of the time, including Maurycy Allerhand, Włodzimierz Dbałowski, Wacław Miszewski, Stanisław Śliwiński, Bronisław Stelmachowski and Jerzy Jodłowski. Contributors to the journal also included Józef Skąpski, Marian Waligórski and Franciszek Xawery Fierich.
‘Polish Civil Procedure’ made a significant impact on the study and practice of civil procedure. It was an important forum for the exchange of views and commentaries on the new civil procedure law, which was in force from 1933.
The last issue of ‘Polish Civil Procedure’ was published in the summer of 1939, but the articles published in this fortnightly journal are an inspiration for the academia and judicial decisions to this day and, in many cases, have remained current.
The first issue of the journal in its current form was published in September 2010 as a result of the efforts of the Academic Society of Civil Procedural Lawyers, the editorial committee with Editor-in-Chief Professor Karol Weitz and the then-editorial secretary, Piotr Rylski, and the LexisNexis publishing house.
The quarterly is currently published by Wolters Kluwer Polska.
Financing, fees
• ‘Polish Civil Procedure’ is financed by the publisher with its own funds, including funding from subscriptions, as well as funding from the Academic Society of Civil Procedural Lawyers;
• in principle, no royalties are paid to authors for articles published in the journal, but the editorial board may decide to award a royalty;
• ‘Polish Civil Procedure’ does not charge authors for closed-access publication;
• the journal does not charge authors for the review process.
Open access policy
‘Polish Civil Procedure’ is available through hybrid access, i.e. partially closed and partially open;
• manuscripts are published in the open access system, including at the request of the authors in accordance with Wolters Kluwer Polska’s principles of open access publication.
AI policy
Tools using generative artificial intelligence cannot be named as authors or co-authors of commentaries. Authors are fully responsible for the content, originality, substantive accuracy and correctness of the sources and citations in the manuscripts that are submitted. Significant use of generative artificial intelligence tools in the preparation of the publication should be disclosed to the editorial office, specifying the extent and objective of their use.
Archiving policy
The publisher permanently stores published issues of ‘Polish Civil Procedure’, their content and basic bibliographic data in the systems used by Wolters Kluwer Polska. The objective of the archiving policy is to ensure continuous access to published materials, maintain the digital integrity of the journal’s content and enable the identification and reproduction of publications regardless of any technological changes in the publishing platform.
Metadata policy
‘Polish Civil Procedure’ aims to provide complete, consistent and processable metadata for all commentaries published. Metadata includes, in particular, the title of the publication, the details of the authors, their affiliations and ORCID IDs, the abstract and keywords in Polish and English, the bibliographic data of the publication and information on financing.
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 international conference materials, 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 2024, item 1571, as amended) for publication in ‘Polish Civil Procedure’;
• the journal is indexed in the Scopus (Elsevier) database;
• 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 2023 (ICV 2023 = 62.90);
• the journal is indexed in the LEX database.
Code of Ethics
‘Polish Civil Procedure’ applies the principles of publication integrity and ethics, as appropriate for Wolters Kluwer Polska’s academic journals, in particular the rules regarding authorship, conflicts of interest, originality of publications, counteracting plagiarism and self-plagiarism, the prohibition of parallel submission of the same manuscript to multiple journals and the reliable presentation of research results. The editorial office takes appropriate steps in the event of the reasonable suspicion of a breach of the code of ethics, including refusing to publish materials, publishing a retraction or withdrawing a published manuscript.
The principles of ethics that apply to authors, reviewers and the editorial office are posted in the ‘Code of Ethics’ tab.
Principles of submitting materials
Before submitting a manuscript to ‘Polish Civil Procedure’, authors should read the Wolters Kluwer Polska journal publication procedure, the principles of submitting materials to the journal and the review process, which can be found in the Submission of Materials and Review Process tabs.
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 material after it has been accepted for publication.
Articles, commentaries, reviews of judgments, analyses of practical legal issues, answers to legal questions, reviews of key works, studies on proposed normative solutions and information on events of relevance to the procedural community in Poland and worldwide are published in ‘Polish Civil Procedure’.
The journal’s mission
The objective of ‘Polish Civil Procedure’ is to present views on issues of importance to the practice and study of issues related to the interpretation, application and formation of civil procedural law. The journal is intended to serve as a platform for discussion, an exchange of views and opinions and for presenting proposed solutions to current regulations, as well as directions for their potential future changes.
The editorial board makes every effort to maintain a balance between academic and practical aspects in the materials published in ‘Polish Civil Procedure’.
History of the journal
‘Polish Civil Procedure’ relates directly to its predecessor – the fortnightly ‘Polish Civil Procedure’, which was published in 1933–1939. It appeared under the title ‘Nowy Proces Cywilny’ (New Civil Procedure) in 1933. This was a journal devoted to the theory, interpretation and practice of procedural law and was founded and published by the ‘Biblioteka Prawnicza’ publishing house. The editorial committee included outstanding lawyers of the time, including Maurycy Allerhand, Włodzimierz Dbałowski, Wacław Miszewski, Stanisław Śliwiński, Bronisław Stelmachowski and Jerzy Jodłowski. Contributors to the journal also included Józef Skąpski, Marian Waligórski and Franciszek Xawery Fierich.
‘Polish Civil Procedure’ made a significant impact on the study and practice of civil procedure. It was an important forum for the exchange of views and commentaries on the new civil procedure law, which was in force from 1933.
The last issue of ‘Polish Civil Procedure’ was published in the summer of 1939, but the articles published in this fortnightly journal are an inspiration for the academia and judicial decisions to this day and, in many cases, have remained current.
The first issue of the journal in its current form was published in September 2010 as a result of the efforts of the Academic Society of Civil Procedural Lawyers, the editorial committee with Editor-in-Chief Professor Karol Weitz and the then-editorial secretary, Piotr Rylski, and the LexisNexis publishing house.
The quarterly is currently published by Wolters Kluwer Polska.
Financing, fees
• ‘Polish Civil Procedure’ is financed by the publisher with its own funds, including funding from subscriptions, as well as funding from the Academic Society of Civil Procedural Lawyers;
• in principle, no royalties are paid to authors for articles published in the journal, but the editorial board may decide to award a royalty;
• ‘Polish Civil Procedure’ does not charge authors for closed-access publication;
• the journal does not charge authors for the review process.
Open access policy
‘Polish Civil Procedure’ is available through hybrid access, i.e. partially closed and partially open;
• manuscripts are published in the open access system, including at the request of the authors in accordance with Wolters Kluwer Polska’s principles of open access publication.
AI policy
Tools using generative artificial intelligence cannot be named as authors or co-authors of commentaries. Authors are fully responsible for the content, originality, substantive accuracy and correctness of the sources and citations in the manuscripts that are submitted. Significant use of generative artificial intelligence tools in the preparation of the publication should be disclosed to the editorial office, specifying the extent and objective of their use.
Archiving policy
The publisher permanently stores published issues of ‘Polish Civil Procedure’, their content and basic bibliographic data in the systems used by Wolters Kluwer Polska. The objective of the archiving policy is to ensure continuous access to published materials, maintain the digital integrity of the journal’s content and enable the identification and reproduction of publications regardless of any technological changes in the publishing platform.
Metadata policy
‘Polish Civil Procedure’ aims to provide complete, consistent and processable metadata for all commentaries published. Metadata includes, in particular, the title of the publication, the details of the authors, their affiliations and ORCID IDs, the abstract and keywords in Polish and English, the bibliographic data of the publication and information on financing.
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 international conference materials, 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 2024, item 1571, as amended) for publication in ‘Polish Civil Procedure’;
• the journal is indexed in the Scopus (Elsevier) database;
• 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 2023 (ICV 2023 = 62.90);
• the journal is indexed in the LEX database.
Code of Ethics
‘Polish Civil Procedure’ applies the principles of publication integrity and ethics, as appropriate for Wolters Kluwer Polska’s academic journals, in particular the rules regarding authorship, conflicts of interest, originality of publications, counteracting plagiarism and self-plagiarism, the prohibition of parallel submission of the same manuscript to multiple journals and the reliable presentation of research results. The editorial office takes appropriate steps in the event of the reasonable suspicion of a breach of the code of ethics, including refusing to publish materials, publishing a retraction or withdrawing a published manuscript.
The principles of ethics that apply to authors, reviewers and the editorial office are posted in the ‘Code of Ethics’ tab.
Principles of submitting materials
Before submitting a manuscript to ‘Polish Civil Procedure’, authors should read the Wolters Kluwer Polska journal publication procedure, the principles of submitting materials to the journal and the review process, which can be found in the Submission of Materials and Review Process tabs.
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 material after it has been accepted for publication.