Supreme Court allows appeal despite new appeal grounds, ruling procedural inadmissibility does not bar review when first instance judgment was dismissed.
Legislator summary
AI generatedThe Supreme Court of Poland allowed the plaintiff's appeal against a lower court's dismissal of the claim, overturning the lower court's decision to reject it as inadmissible. The lower court had deemed the appeal inadmissible because the plaintiff introduced new legal arguments regarding the Teacher's Charter that were not raised in the first instance. The Supreme Court ruled that while changing appeal grounds is generally restricted, it does not render an appeal inadmissible when the underlying first-instance judgment dismissing the claim exists as the subject of the appeal.
Legislator headnote
AI generatedArt. 383 KPC; Art. 373 KPC: The inadmissibility of changing the claim in appellate proceedings does not justify the rejection of an appeal when the appealed judgment dismisses the plaintiff's claim, as the dismissed claim constitutes the subject of the appeal.