Supreme Court dismissed appeal; expert medical opinions suffice without mandatory ex officio evidence for combatant disability.

The Supreme Court dismissed the cassation appeal filed by Bolesław S. against a lower court's refusal to grant him a disability pension based on his time in a Nazi concentration camp. The applicant argued that the court failed to conduct ex officio evidence collection and misapplied the preamble of the Combatants Act, while the opposing party contended that existing expert medical opinions conclusively established no causal link between his current ailments and his wartime service. The court ruled that the preamble of the relevant statute does not create substantive rights and that the duty to collect evidence ex officio only applies when disputed facts remain unclarified, which was not the case here given the clear expert findings.