Polska po 1989 roku. Jak ją widzę

In the article, the author sat tempted to assess the changes in the Polish legal system after 1989, which took place as a result of the democratic transformation. After 1989, a number of political, systemic, legal, economic and social changes were made in Poland. The Constitution of 1997 defined the frame work for the system of governance in Poland and resulting from Poland’s accession to NATO and the European Union. Transformation shave improved the efficiency of the democratic system of law by enabling citizen stop articipate effectively in the life of society. However, society in Poland has a low level of trust in law, courts and judges. The Polish legal system after the transformation did not get rid of its bureaucratic character, politicised by the system of government. Moreover, respect for the rule of law, which is a model of conduct for the state administration, as anecessary minimum for its political assessment, is confronted with conflicts of policy and creates functional divisions in the sphere of implementation of the democratic nature of the rule of law.