- Research Article
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- 10.5604/01.3001.0014.4886
SENTENCING FOR THE OFFENSE OF FALSE TESTIMONY IN THE LIGHT OF JUDICIAL DECISIONS
- Dec 03, 2020
- Probacja
- Izabela Urbaniak-Mastalerz
The study presents the problems of courts, in the case of sentencing for crimes of false testimony in the light of judicial decisions. The article is, therefore, a presentation of issued decisions of common courts and the Supreme Court in the scope of this off ense, indicating the changes made to the law. The author will attempt to resolve the problem of the circumstances in which a false testimony is sentenced for as an off ence, given the current case-law of the Supreme Court and common courts. The conclusions of the discussed principles of sentencing for this crime (based on available statistics), will be the starting point for the assessment.
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