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Mgr Wojciech Rzepiński
ORCID: 000-0002-9314-8818

Mgr Wojciech Rzepiński

PhD student at the Department of Legal Theory and Philosophy at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Faculty of Law and Administration). From 2020, he is a Principal Investigator in the Polish National Science Centre's grant PRELUDIUM 17 entitled The inferentialist account of legal fact-finding in legal decision-making process (2019/33/N/HS5/01418).

 
DOI: 10.33226/0137-5490.2022.6.5
JEL: K12, K15, K41

The aim of this paper is to discuss the changes introduced to strengthen the legal protection of consumers by the amendments to the Polish Code of Civil Procedure of 2019 and 2021 and to answer two specific questions: (1) whether, under the amendment of 2019, the court — assuming that the defendant is entitled to appropriate consumer protection — had the competence to refer such a case to the court with jurisdiction and (3) did the amendment of 2021 solve the problem of qualifying promissory note guarantors as consumers, in a situation where the promissory note surety (legal action) in relation to the entrepreneur was not directly related to the business or professional activity of the guarantor.

Keywords: bill of exchange; consumer; order for payment; consumer credit